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When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
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One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.
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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
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If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.
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Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
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Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.
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There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Joseph Joubert
Born:
May 7, 1754
Died:
May 4, 1824
(aged 69)
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