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Charles J. Ingersoll was American politician and writer. Charles Jared Ingersoll was an American lawyer, writer and politician who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district from 1813 to 1815, Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district from 1841 to 1843 and Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district from 1843 to 1849. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question every one should be serene slow-pulsed and calm.”
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“A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.”
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“Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.”
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“An honest God is the noblest work of man.”
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“Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion but nearly all religions come from that hope.”
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“My creed is this: 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 help make others so.”
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