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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Well
Touched
Excellence
Except
Hold
Within
Power
Best
Wells
Assured

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Living requires but little life doing requires much.
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Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.
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