Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.Jean Jacques Rousseau
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General and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest errors of mankind.
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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
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It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil rights the natural equality between men. It is this celestial voice which dictates to each citizen the precepts of public reason, and teaches him to act according to the rules of his own judgment and not to behave inconsistently with himself. It is with this voice alone that political leaders should speak when. they command.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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