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How many people eat, drink, and get married buy, sell, and build make contracts and attend to their fortune have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
Joseph Joubert
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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
People
Pleasure
Sells
Attend
Dies
Fortune
Pains
Friends
Build
Asleep
Pain
Married
Contracts
Born
Drink
Pleasures
Live
Grow
Awakening
Many
Enemy
Enemies
Make
Grows
Sell
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