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What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.
Philibert Joseph Roux
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Philibert Joseph Roux
Age: 73 †
Born: 1780
Born: April 26
Died: 1854
Died: March 23
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