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If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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How many people eat, drink, and get married buy, sell, and build make contracts and attend to their fortune have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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