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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Provided A Man Is Not Mad, He

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.
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