I find no compulsion more terrible than the obligation of speaking continuously and on the spur of the… — Jean Jacques Rousseau

I find no compulsion more terrible than the obligation of speaking continuously and on the spur of the moment. I do not know whether this has anything to do with my mortal aversion to constraint of any kind; but to be absolutely obliged to speak is enough to make me infallibly talk nonsense.

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