I did not find that my critical faculties had lost their vigour owing to my having begun to exercise them… — Jean Jacques Rousseau

I did not find that my critical faculties had lost their vigour owing to my having begun to exercise them late; and, when I published my own ideas, I have never been accused of being a servile disciple, or of swearing in verba magistri.

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