Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one re…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
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