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Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Genevan philosopher

June 28th, 1712 - July 2nd, 1778

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