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Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book Two: Part 1

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

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Book Two: Part 1

As much as the moment, when terror suggested the project of flight, had appeared afflicting, so much did that of executing it appear charming. Still a child, leaving my country, my parents, my support, my resources; an apprenticeship half finished, without knowing enough of the trade to subsist by it; to be given up to the horrors of misery, without perceiving the least means of getting out of it; in the age of weakness and innocence, to expose myself to every temptation of vice and despair; seek afar off misfortune, error, snares, slavery, and death, ...

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