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Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.

Charles Bradlaugh

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Charles Bradlaugh
Age: 57 †
Born: 1833
Born: September 26
Died: 1891
Died: January 30
Activist
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New Orleans
Louisiana
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Atheism

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