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QUOTATION:Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
ATTRIBUTION:Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), French philosopher, social critic. The Social Contract, p. 49, trans. by Maurice Cranston, Pelican-Penguin, Baltimore (1968).

Rousseau’s picture of man’s place in society.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS:Rousseau Collection.
 
 
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