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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. and with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. and with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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