The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously. (Joseph Joubert)

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Joseph Joubert

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