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Our ancestors have travelled the iron age the golden is before us.
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
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Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Age: 77 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 19
Died: 1814
Died: January 21
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The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the order of nature it is the only religion which presents woman to man as a companion every other abandons her to him as a slave. To religion alone do European women owe their liberty.
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Death, my son, is a good thing for all men it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls.
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