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Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.
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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If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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The English people think they are free they are greatly deceived they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.
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He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.
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