American - Lawyer | August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899
Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
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Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
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Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.
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Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.
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A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same as you would with your banker.
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What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.
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The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life.
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Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth.
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The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar - his life has been a success.
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Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light.
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If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men.
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