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Let us agree not to step on each other’s feet.

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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The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.
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