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If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
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
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God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.
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