Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll

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Education Quotes
Type:
Lawyer Quotes
Category:
American Lawyer Quotes
Date of Birth:
August 11, 1833
Date of Death:
July 21, 1899
Nationality:
American
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