Robert Green Ingersoll

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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These are some quotes by American author Robert Green Ingersoll Lawyer, who lived between August 11, 1833 and July 21, 1899.

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

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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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Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong.

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