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The Confessions other enjoyment, if not truly disinterested, they are abso- young people are near, or a man I am acquainted with is lutely insipid; in a word, I am fond of those things which are standing at the door; I take all that pass for persons I have only estimable to minds formed for the peculiar enjoyment some knowledge of, and my near sight contributes to de- of them. ceive me. I am everywhere intimidated, restrained by some I never thought money so desirable as it is usually imag- obstacle, and with money in my pocket return as I went, for ined; if you would enjoy you must transform it; and this want of resolution to purchase what I long for. transformation is frequently attended with inconvenience; I should enter into the most insipid details was I to relate you must bargain, purchase, pay dear, be badly served, and the trouble, shame, repugnance, and inconvenience of all kinds often duped. I buy an egg, am assured it is new-laid—I find which I have experienced in parting with my money, whether it stale; fruit in its utmost perfection—’tis absolutely green. I in my own person, or by the agency of others; as I proceed, love good wine, but where shall I get it? Not at my wine the reader will get acquainted with my disposition, and per- merchant’s—he will poison me to a certainty. I wish to be ceive all this without my troubling him with the recital. universally respected; how shall I compass my design? I must This once comprehended, one of my apparent contradic- make friends, send messages, write letters, come, go, wait, tions will be easily accounted for, and the most sordid ava- and be frequently deceived. Money is the perpetual source rice reconciled with the greatest contempt of money. It is a of uneasiness; I fear it more than I love good wine. movable which I consider of so little value, that, when desti- A thousand times, both during and since my apprenticetute of it, I never wish to acquire any; and when I have a sum ship, have I gone out to purchase some nicety, I approach I keep it by me, for want of knowing how to dispose of it to the pastry-cook’s, perceive some women at the counter, and my satisfaction; but let an agreeable and convenient oppor- imagine they are laughing at me. I pass a fruit shop, see some tunity present itself, and I empty my purse with the utmost fine pears, their appearance tempts me; but then two or three freedom; not that I would have the reader imagine I am ex- 40
Rousseau travagant from a motive of ostentation, quite the reverse; it My disinterestedness, then, is in reality only idleness, the was ever in subservience to my pleasures, and, instead of pleasure of possessing is not in my estimation worth the glorying in expense, I endeavor to conceal it. I so well per- trouble of acquiring: and my dissipation is only another form ceive that money is not made to answer my purposes, that I of idleness; when we have an opportunity of disbursing pleas- am almost ashamed to have any, and, still more, to make use antly we should make the best possible use of it. of it. I am less tempted by money than by other objects, be- Had I ever possessed a moderate independence, I am concause between the moment of possessing the money and that vinced I should have had no propensity to become avari- of using it to obtain the desired object there is always an cious. I should have required no more, and cheerfully lived interval, however short; whereas to possess the thing is to up to my income; but my precarious situation has constantly enjoy it. I see a thing and it tempts me; but if I see not the and necessarily kept me in fear. I love liberty, and I loathe thing itself but only the means of acquiring it, I am not constraint, dependence, and all their kindred annoyances. tempted. Therefore it is that I have been a pilferer, and am As long as my purse contains money it secures my indepen- so even now, in the way of mere trifles to which I take a dence, and exempts me from the trouble of seeking other fancy, and which I find it easier to take than to ask for; but I money, a trouble of which I have always had a perfect hor- never in my life recollect having taken a farthing from any ror; and the dread of seeing the end of my independence, one, except about fifteen years ago, when I stole seven francs makes me proportionately unwilling to part with my money. and ten sous. The story is worth recounting, as it exhibits a The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that concurrence of ignorance and stupidity I should scarcely which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of sla- credit, did it relate to any but myself. very. Thence it is that I hold fast to aught that I have, and yet It was in Paris: I was walking with M. de Franceul at the covet nothing more. Palais Royal; he pulled out his watch, he looked at it, and 41
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Rousseau I perceived all this, nor
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Rousseau de Vercellis, but possesse
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without this reflection. Rousseau t
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Rousseau of sustaining a second com
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Rousseau hardly had we set foot in
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Rousseau tion, for I looked on this
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Rousseau whether it was man or woma
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Rousseau my chagrin till the tears
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Rousseau This life was too delightf
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have surpassed me. Rousseau It is n
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Rousseau der her capable of fulfill
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Rousseau than to instruct me. So mu
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Rousseau seen the wind change durin
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Rousseau delight in teasing. The re
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Rousseau ter judgment to distinguis
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Rousseau whatever might be the even
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Rousseau alarm. I screamed with ter
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BOOK IV Let any one judge my surpri
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Rousseau people whose company pleas
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Rousseau oner of war; come, get up
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Rousseau reach it by daylight; and
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Rousseau had never paid much attent
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Rousseau good little man, whom at a
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Rousseau hopes of any return, she w
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Rousseau posure. In the morning, ha
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Quel caprice! Quel injustice! Quio,
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Rousseau expect no true happiness i
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Rousseau tion repeated at this day,
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Rousseau nothing had been said. Jud
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Rousseau on the strength of the com
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Rousseau particular disgust to resi
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Rousseau more chance of finding her
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Rousseau world, I should have been
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Rousseau (the particulars of which
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Rousseau Rolichon in the street, he
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Rousseau about the employment Madam
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Rousseau ration, but it put me in t
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Rousseau ceive the gloominess of my
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Rousseau themselves. Let the reader
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Rousseau my idea under the general
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Rousseau French on their defeats, w
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Rousseau as it was necessary to acc
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Rousseau took away the apartment wh
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Rousseau me at that time, I weigh i
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Rousseau run no risk of this, did n
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Rousseau pleased her: had she found
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Rousseau age, and my heart intoxica
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Rousseau delicate; she seemed forme
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Rousseau whom are yet living) have
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Rousseau natural consequences of th
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Rousseau alchemists, projects of al
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Rousseau In an excursion which Anet
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Rousseau the louis I had concealed
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Rousseau ers of the customs. This p
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Rousseau was then new; he mentioned
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Rousseau with regard to women he wa
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Rousseau but only let an artful sch
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Rousseau This memorial was a judici
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done anything to destroy health? Ro
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Rousseau vinced that had I studied
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Rousseau did not conclude by my fau
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BOOK VI Hoc erat in votis: Modus ag
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Rousseau One morning, being no wors
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Rousseau having bestowed what was n
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Rousseau a rustic life, and the soc
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Rousseau Though weak, I resumed my
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Rousseau improvement increased, I c
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Rousseau ity; for ’tis certain I
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Rousseau that I had decorated with
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Rousseau have read Venetian magic,
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Rousseau guor, which even had its p
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Rousseau increase, and endeavored a
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Rousseau the very flower of my age,
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Rousseau As we became more familiar
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Rousseau could not take courage to
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Rousseau this manner was by no mean
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Rousseau smaller and dirtier fill u
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Rousseau I accustomed myself so muc
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ceiving ourselves. Rousseau Valence
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Rousseau he diligently overlooked t
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Rousseau ness so absolutely in her,
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Rousseau able; I felt that the pres
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Rousseau had drank at table, and th
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Rousseau that I was in the same mel
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BOOK VII After two years’ silence
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Rousseau everything else, it is inf
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Rousseau ing better shows the incli
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Rousseau sons to whom I was recomme
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Rousseau whenever they spoke of the
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Rousseau months she read every kind
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Rousseau was sorry to see me thus i
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Rousseau From this time I thought I
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Rousseau me ill-timed. This rendere
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Rousseau more delicious than one pa
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Rousseau my table, and the steps se
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Rousseau I was foolish enough to te
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Rousseau news they had respectively
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Rousseau announced by the name of
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Rousseau tion made me commit in cip
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Rousseau ness was done before he we
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Rousseau some apology, to which how
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Rousseau relative to a dinner he wa
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Rousseau nothing to do with this af
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Rousseau from the company to anothe
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Rousseau desired to have two of the
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Rousseau retary of the Spanish emba
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Rousseau conidenza’, in an undres
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Rousseau nature, of men and of love
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Rousseau retire to Geneva, until ti
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Rousseau the same state, until, tir
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Rousseau and went to Paris. He was
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Rousseau ters, his marriage, and fi
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Rousseau the point of believing I w
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Rousseau mained to be added. This m
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Rousseau the number of the latter w
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Rousseau thors who had contributed
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Rousseau gaged my attention. During
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Rousseau about them. At length I ha
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Rousseau nished me with the only re
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Rousseau was put into the linen of
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Rousseau though innocently, into th
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Rousseau Diderot. Had this continue
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Rousseau although he was very agree
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Rousseau singing Italian airs, and
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Rousseau Sensuality did not preside
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Rousseau since the difficulty of pr
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Rousseau Chenonceaux, her daughter-
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Rousseau the necessary instructions
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Rousseau myself to be influenced an
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Rousseau man whom they had seen com
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Rousseau never once entered my head
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Rousseau not how to act: they suffe
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Rousseau to hear what was said to h
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Rousseau known, that on the next da
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Rousseau made himself! At the head
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Rousseau who knew my intentions, an
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Rousseau well dressed, I began to b
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which being exposed to the risk of
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Rousseau not what other advantages
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Rousseau and they gave me the first
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Rousseau lic, notwithstanding its a
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Rousseau median, with whom I had be
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Rousseau care of physicians, who, w
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Rousseau trifling part of the conte
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Rousseau burgesses, and I attended
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Rousseau Jalabert, a few compliment
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Rousseau my destiny: the moment I h
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Rousseau and M. de Tressan, when he
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Rousseau my thought, rendered me me
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Rousseau length, all my wishes are
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Rousseau ing to be personal, I shou
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Rousseau proposed to me as useful i
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Rousseau which account this subject
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Rousseau trary, I loved her perhaps
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Rousseau have been expected to be d
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Rousseau the only one with which I
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Rousseau ment my mind in agitation
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Rousseau These reflections at lengt
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living in intimacy. Rousseau works
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Rousseau to the preceding administr
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Rousseau ploy this day as I think p
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Rousseau pose her to the mortificat
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Rousseau Providence, and which had
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Rousseau I first wrote a few incohe
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Rousseau chamber of the gardener, w
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Rousseau to conquer in her turn, is
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Rousseau portunate visits, I tasted
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Rousseau was not beloved; for as to
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Rousseau able society we might form
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Rousseau rendered her unfaithful, a
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Rousseau me at my arrival. This sin
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Rousseau vent me from finding in th
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Rousseau ters were, they would have
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Rousseau some advantage agreeable t
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Rousseau house. Happily she, more a
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Rousseau respectable sages, who, in
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Thursday. “My good friend. Madam
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Rousseau becoming a bad man. I cann
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Rousseau much as been tempted to un
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Rousseau the singular number: but w
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Rousseau would have been supportabl
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for his cheeks. Rousseau a good dea
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Rousseau is probable this crime was
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Rousseau nation, pleasure and fancy
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Rousseau to take the benefit of the
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Rousseau was conveyed to me; the su
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Rousseau extinguished. She announce
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Rousseau duity, deprived me of the
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Rousseau tance, and giving the tone
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Rousseau the most trifling indispos
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Rousseau friends have prevailed upo
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BOOK X The extraordinary degree of
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Rousseau onded them powerfully, and
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Rousseau In these dark and crooked
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Rousseau evening, to pass a couple
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Rousseau The rules of good breeding
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Rousseau which have come from your
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Rousseau mutual civilities had cont
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I had just been half submerged. Rou
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Rousseau son for asking my permissi
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Rousseau nor a single man of letter
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Rousseau his friends, to whom it so
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Rousseau more than once very severe
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Rousseau knew that my whole talent
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Rousseau ation no longer permitted
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Rousseau there is a private house,
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Rousseau of the marechal confirmed
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Rousseau With what eagerness did I
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Rousseau say nothing more on the su
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Rousseau This gave him an introduct
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Rousseau gerness did I return in th
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Rousseau over many things. I had be
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Rousseau who is not known to you, b
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Rousseau I joined with her the mare
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Rousseau I certainly say some stupi
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Rousseau largement of the Abbe Morr
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Rousseau But by what means had this
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which this respect requires.” Rou
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Rousseau inspired her with a curios
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Rousseau lection ever be given to t
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Rousseau journal; he was also desir
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Rousseau delighted was the poor cre
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Rousseau prevented me from succeedi
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Rousseau out naming the persons, th
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Rousseau request at the castle of M
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Rousseau tainly was not to be pitie
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Rousseau and that of Theresa; after
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Rousseau some trifling alteration I
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Rousseau might be so many snares la
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Rousseau Neaulme, who had given the
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Rousseau and the progress of it bec
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Rousseau more attentive, I found my
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Rousseau asylum which might be agre
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Rousseau barbarous cruelty with whi
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Rousseau “there is not in it a si
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Rousseau Boufflers that none but pe
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Rousseau me to sacrifice my reputat
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Rousseau arms. Oh, friendship, affi
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Rousseau spare me this disagreeable
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Rousseau which in itself is abomina
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Rousseau explain, even by conjectur
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Rousseau solved to yield to the sol
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Rousseau for a moment counterbalanc
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Rousseau well-known generosity, and
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Rousseau give, in some measure, an
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Rousseau me a little house, such a
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Rousseau and enabled me to pass my
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Rousseau civility, and saying, that
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Rousseau had no doubt of the purity
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These letters, written prior to my
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Rousseau from which I have never de
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Rousseau on my guard. They soon rem
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Rousseau to break with his mother,
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Rousseau received him with the utmo
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Rousseau means he had formed this a
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Rousseau suffer long; but if I thou
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Rousseau spoke of them to everybody
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Rousseau abandon me, and in their q
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Rousseau of mind, and keeping mysel
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Rousseau appeared to me an act of c
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say something of Hume. Rousseau tir
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Rousseau was not a Christian. These
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Rousseau ised, and I am still waiti
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Rousseau tions, and this with but l
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Rousseau which produce not such exc
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Rousseau to that island; such was m
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Rousseau I sent for Theresa, who br
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Rousseau to please my poor dog, who
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Rousseau quiet in the castle of Arb
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Rousseau greater anguish, but never
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Rousseau which I was going to be co
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Rousseau Whilst I thus hesitated ca
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Rousseau at the castle of Montmoren
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