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Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
Essayist
Lawyer
Lecturer
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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
Unfortunate
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The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
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