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A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Never
Eye
Minded
Times
Sincerity
May
Double
Everything
Cross
Without
False
Looks
Crosses
Mind
Mental
Duplicity
Always
Hundred
Deceit

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