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Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Age: 66 †
Born: 1712
Born: June 28
Died: 1778
Died: July 2
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The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.
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Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
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