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One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.
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
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
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When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice.
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Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.
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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
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Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.
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The minister asks, 'What right have you to hope? It is sacrilegious to you.' But, whether the clergy like it or not, I shall always express my real opinion, and shall always be glad to say to those who mourn: 'There is in death, as I believe, nothing worse than sleep. Hope for as much better as you can.'
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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
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[T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or bursts from a vine climbing the marble pillar of a palace. I respect no man because he is rich I hold in contempt no man because he is poor.
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Music expresses feeling and thought, without language it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
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If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.
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The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence and secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
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