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If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
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Dresden
Yates County
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Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
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If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?
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Death is only perfect rest.
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The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings.
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The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
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Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
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Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.
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