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Great Quotes by Joseph Joubert
- 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…
- We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
- Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
- Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
- The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach…
- When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
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