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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man ✨ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1956). Emile: selections
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Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs. ✨ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1892). Rousseau's Émile: Or, Treatise on E … ▶
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man. ✨ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1861). The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, p.346
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man ✨ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1956). Emile: selections

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