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Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.

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
Injustice
Impossible
Justice
Heaven
Upon
Earth
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