Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of a…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
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Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

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