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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one. [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]
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We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.
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Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.
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Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.
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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
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