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Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.
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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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Liberty is not to be found in any form of government she is in the heart of the free man he bears her with him everywhere.
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The English people believes itself to be free it is gravely mistaken it is free only during election of members of parliament as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.
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