A brass megaphone sends out radiating golden light above red cloth against deep crimson.

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The Adventure of the German Student

Washington Irving

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

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Our interpretation.

Genuine enthusiasm gives a speaker a persuasive power that polish alone cannot supply. When someone truly burns with belief in what they say, listeners sense it, and that sincerity carries a force of its own that is hard to question or dismiss.

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