I am commencing an undertaking, hitherto without precedent, and which will never find an imitator. I desire… — Jean Jacques Rousseau

I am commencing an undertaking, hitherto without precedent, and which will never find an imitator. I desire to set before my fellows the likeness of a man in all the truth of nature, and that man myself.

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