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Children need models rather than critics.

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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There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.
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When you give, give with joy and smiling.
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Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely a word, and they are heard and seen.
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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
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