"I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music, but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against which prejudices are powerless. I soon contracted the passion it inspires in all those born to understand it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music, but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against which prejudices are powerless. I soon contracted the passion it inspires in all those born to understand it."

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