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" "Voici le temps aussi de l'accoutumer peu à peu à donner une attention suivie au même objet : mais ce n'est jamais la contrainte, c'est toujours le plaisir ou le désir qui doit produire cette attention ; il faut avoir grand soin qu'elle ne l'accable point et n'aille pas jusqu'à l'ennui. Tenez donc toujours l'oeil au guet ; et, quoi qu'il arrive, quittez tout avant qu'il s'ennuie ; car il n'importe jamais autant qu'il apprenne, qu'il importe qu'il ne fasse rien malgré lui.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a major French-speaking Genevan philosopher of Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism.
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