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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Book
Divine
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Teach
Men
Books
Religion
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Bible
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Morality

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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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