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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!” quote by Joseph Joubert — Download Open image

“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!”

Joseph Joubert

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We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

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