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Beings who are so uniquely constituted must necessarily express themselves in other ways than ordinary men. It is impossible that with souls so differently modified, they should not carry over into the expression of their feelings and ideas the stamp of those modifications.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau Dialogues: Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques (1782)

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