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Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765)

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Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it means one always has some battle to wage against oneself.

Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth.

Money is the source of all the false ideas of society.

A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one.

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