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All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
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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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There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
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Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
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