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Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed now we have to make our own ladders.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
World
Ladders
Roads
Torn
Followed
Heaven
Religion
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Men

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