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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
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Progress
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It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]
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