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Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book Twelve: Part 5

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

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Book Twelve: Part 5

I gave every afternoon totally up to my indolent and careless disposition, and to following without regularity the impulse of the moment. When the weather was calm I frequently went, immediately after I rose from dinner, and alone got into a little boat. The Receiver had taught me to row with one oar; I rowed out into the middle of the lake. The moment I withdrew from the bank, I felt a secret joy which almost made me leap, and of which it is impossible for me to tell or even comprehend the cause, if it were not a secret congratulation on my being ...

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