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Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Other quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Risk
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Education
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Other Quotes from
famous
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Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails. – Dirk Benedict

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famous

I remember, when I was an up-and-coming comic, how annoyed I would be when the famous guys would show up and just take everyones spots. – Seth Rogen

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famous

I dont want to be famous famous. Im happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized. – Gabrielle Reece

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famous

So Im a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. Theyre living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops. – Ed Smith

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famous

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In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her? – Jessamyn West

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. – Alexander Pope

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Sure were in limos. Were stars. How else is a star supposed to travel? – Deion Sanders

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