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• Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
• The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
  -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau...
• All that time is lost which might be better employed. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau
• It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau...
• The noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.
  -- Lt Col Jean V. Duboi...
• A man's a man who looks a man right between the eyes.
• People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
  -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, "Emile, ou de l'education", 1762...
• I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Pairing Time Anticipated...