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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
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Philosopher
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The dregs may stir themselves as they please they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.
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Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
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