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Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book Ten: Part 3

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

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Book Ten: Part 3

As my last project, if I found I could entirely do without copying, was that of removing from Paris, where the affluence of my visitors rendered my housekeeping expensive, and deprived me of the time I should have turned to advantage to provide for it; to prevent in my retirement the state of lassitude, into which an author is said to fall when he has laid down his pen, I reserved to myself an occupation which might fill up the void in my solitude without tempting me to print anything more in my lifetime. I know not for what reason Rey had long ...

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