Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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• We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Why
  • Bread