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Strength is not energy some authors have more muscles than talent.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
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Muscles
Strength
Talent
Energy

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Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
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Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book in conversation a little excess is allowable.
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If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.
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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
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History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
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