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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes: Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.
         

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.


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