But this project, the carrying out of which would probably have plunged me into the study of botany, for… — Jean Jacques Rousseau

But this project, the carrying out of which would probably have plunged me into the study of botany, for which, as it appears to me, I was born, failed in consequence of one of those unexpected accidents which overthrow the best concerted plans. I was fated to become by degrees an example of human misery

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