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

-Robert Green Ingersoll

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Robert Green Ingersoll quote about God: "If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith."

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"An honest God is the noblest work of man."

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"A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie."

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"My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so."

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"The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others."

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