“You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.”

—  John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

Rousseau http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14052/14052-h/14052-h.htm (1876)

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British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor 1838–1923

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