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Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book One: Part 2

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

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Book One: Part 2

Even after the marriageable age, this odd taste, always increasing, carried even to depravity, even to folly, preserved my morals good, the very reverse of which might have been expected. If ever an education was modest and chaste, it was certainly that I received. My three aunts were not only people of an exemplary prudence, but of a reserve women have long since forgot. My father, a man of pleasure, but gallant after the old fashion, never advanced to the women he loved most a word which could make a virgin blush, and never, than in our family and ...

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