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Robert G. Ingersoll - A few years ago they would have...

A few years ago they would have burned me at the stake and I should have been compelled to look upon their hypocritical faces through flame and smoke. They cannot do it now or they would. (Robert G. Ingersoll)

A few years ago they would have burned me at the stake and I should have been compelled to look upon their hypocritical faces through flame and smoke. They cannot do it now or they would.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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