It was very hot in the back room and the back of the house was pretty much melted.


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All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and ou...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a p...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak,...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through t...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
Some Christian lawyers—some eminent and stupid judges—have said and still say, that the Ten Comm...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
[Robert's eulogy at his brother, Ebon C. Ingersoll's grave. Even the great orator Robert Ingersoll w...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
The undressed is vulgar - the nude is pure
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we de...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
When I became convinced that the Universe is natural – that all the ghosts and gods are myths, the...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge o...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and an...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudi...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact wi...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own impriso...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitte...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of th...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, m...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to b...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -R. G. Ingersoll.
R. G. INGERSOLL
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more dis...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to prese...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into po...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few m...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
These contradictions are gross and palpable and demonstrate that the New Testament is not inspired, ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child th...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the v...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of pe...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Give the church a place in the Constitution, let her touch once more the sword of power, and the pri...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppres...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He w...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change th...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak,...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL