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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. "
Robert Green Ingersoll
Man
Success
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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" If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestructible must be uncreatable. "
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" In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of an eternal hell. "
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" There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish. "
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" They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers. "
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" The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither. "
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" He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor. "
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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 Am
" He who does not want does not act. "
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" Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing. "
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" Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. "
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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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Young
World
" 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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Enough
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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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" The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live. "
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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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" Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower and lender both. "
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World
Love
" Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree. "
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Religion
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" Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name in the presence of a clergyman, and you will find that you have made a declaration of war. "
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Will
" In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. "
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Had
" In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Bastille. It fell upon the sunniest field, upon the happiest home. "
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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. "
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" The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within. "
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Within
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