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Childhood is the sleep of reason.
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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There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
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The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.
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I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.
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Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.
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Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary She I love is far away.
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