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— Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm"Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style."
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My father... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before learning to read, my greatest pleasure was to listen to passages from Buffon's natural history. I constantly requested him to read me the history of animals and birds.
— Andre-Marie Ampere
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There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is it Pliny, is it Buffon? No-it is Robinson Crusoe.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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