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“People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.” quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Download Open image

“People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen the pompous face of this Rome saved by your efforts and which your honourable name had distinguished more than all its conquests? 'Gods,' you would have said, 'what has happened to those thatched roofs and those…

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