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" It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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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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" No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all. "

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" There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together. "

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" For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. "

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" Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. "

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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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" As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected. "

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" Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius. "

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" A good character, like a Gibraltar, will stand against the testimony of all the rascals in the universe, no matter how they assail it. It will stand, and it will stand firmer and grander the more it is assaulted. "

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" There is no slavery but ignorance. "

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" In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. "

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" Few rich men own their property; their property owns them. "

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" Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. "

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" Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex. "

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" Whether there is another life or not, if there is any being who gave me this, I shall thank him from the bottom of my heart, because, upon the whole, my life has been a joy. "

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

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" I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man is, the grander he is, the more he thinks of mother, wife and daughter. "

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" The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. "

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" Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. "

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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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" I believe in living for this world - that's my doctrine - to make everybody happy that you can. "

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" It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. "

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" Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner. "

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" Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower. "

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

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

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" Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint. "

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