Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forge…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody. ✨ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2005). On the Origin of Inequality, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.
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Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody. ✨ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2005). On the Origin of Inequality, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

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