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Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
Essayist
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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
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Let us agree not to step on each other’s feet.
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There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.
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The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance.
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I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.
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Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
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The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
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An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.
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It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.
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The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His next duty is to help others if he has a surplus, and if he really believes they deserve to be helped.
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There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe when the loving, the tender, east a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.
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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
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He who dishonors himself [by lying about his opinions] for the sake of being honored by others will find that two mistakes have been made - one by himself, and the other, by the people.
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With soap, baptism is a good thing.
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As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
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