David Simple

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“If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The first man, who after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, this is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)