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Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.

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
Nothing
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Men
Bodies
Destroy
Atheism
Break
Greater
Phantom
Body
Nobler
Soul
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