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Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Virtue
Nursing
Path
Showed
Heaven
Virtues
Religion
Walk
Mother
Duty
Country
Walks
Must
Loved
Kind
Taught
Nourished

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