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" Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million. "

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" There may be another life, and if there is, the best way to prepare for it is by making somebody happy in this. "

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" A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie. "

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" Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something. "

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" If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew. "

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" An honest God is the noblest work of man. "

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" Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others. "

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" In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. "

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" The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. "

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" If the guardians of society, the protectors of 'young persons,' could have had their way, we should have known nothing of Byron or Shelley. The voices that thrill the world would now be silent. "

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" Whoever marries simply for himself will make a mistake; but whoever loves a woman so well that he says, 'I will make her happy,' makes no mistake. And so with the woman who says, 'I will make him happy.' "

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" Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. "

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" I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of childhood will not see through every veil. "

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" The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems. "

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" It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about. "

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" I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor. "

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" The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. "

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" Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. "

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" The truth is that nearly everybody is right about some things and wrong about most things; and if a man's testimony is not to be taken until he is right on every subject, witnesses will be extremely scarce. "

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" If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith. "

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" Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth. "

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" When you go home, fill the house with joy so that the light of it will stream out the windows and doors and illuminate even the darkness. It is just as easy that way as any in the world. "

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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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" Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself. "

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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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" I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it. "

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" All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him. "

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