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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. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
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People
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" Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion. "
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" It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. "
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" It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small. "
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" I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne. "
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" Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to give man liberty, to clothe him in all his just rights, I am on the side of that rebellion. "
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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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" Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth. "
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" In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. "
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" They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty. "
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" In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius. "
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" Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. "
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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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" Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. "
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" Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree. "
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" In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. "
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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 think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor. "
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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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" A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy. "
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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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" 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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" This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries. "
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" Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds. "
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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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