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One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
Joseph Joubert
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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Widows
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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The breath of the mind is attention.
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In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
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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.
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To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.
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Let us be men with men, and always children before God for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.
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Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.
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