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• He who is most slow in making a promise, is the most faithful in the performance of it.
  -- Rousseau...
• To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
  -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau...
• Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
• 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...
• Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• War... is something that occurs not between man and man, but between States.
  The individuals who become involved in it are enemies only by accident. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau...
• 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...