Emile shall be as much at home in the water as on land. Why should he not be able to live in every element… — Jean Jacques Rousseau

Emile shall be as much at home in the water as on land. Why should he not be able to live in every element? If he could learn to fly, he should be an eagle; I would make him a salamander, if he could bear the heat.

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