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Celibacy is the essence of vulgarity.

— Robert G. Ingersoll

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  1. Certainly marriages by Justices of the Peace cannot cause the mental, moral and financial decay of a State.
  2. Call me infidel, call me atheist, call me what you will, I intend so to treat my children, that they can come to my grave and truthfully sa…
  3. Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
  4. Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
  5. Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
  6. Belief is not a voluntary thing. A man believes or disbelieves in spite of himself. They tell us that to believe is the safe way; but I say…
  7. Crowned force has governed ignorance through fear. Hypocrisy and tyranny - two vultures - have fed upon the liberties of man. From all thes…
  8. Away, forever away with the creeds and books and forms and laws and religions that take from the soul liberty and reason. Down with the ide…

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  • celibacy
  • values

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