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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
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