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You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Anything
Pebbles
Without
Stream
Like
Grain
Rolling
Streams
Keeping
Pebble
Along
Dissolved
Else
Dissolving

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