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Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
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
Degrades
Reforms
Degrade
Civility
Cruelty
Reform
Kindness
Ennobles
Hardens
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Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.
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