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Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . .
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
Essayist
Lawyer
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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
Without
Heart
Humanist
Infinitely
Cruel
Intellect
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