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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
Joseph Joubert
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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.
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Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
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Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
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