Quote by: Robert G. Ingersoll

I do not see how it is possible for a man to die worth fifty million of dollars, or ten million of dollars, in a city full of want, when he meets almost every day the withered hand of beggary and the white lips of famine. How a man can withstand all that, and hold in the clutch of his greed twenty or thirty million of dollars, is past my comprehension. I do not see how he can do it. I should not think he could do it any more than he could keep a pile of lumber on the beach, where hundreds and thousands of men were drowning in the sea.


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  • NameRobert G. Ingersoll
  • DescriptionUnion United States Army officer
  • BornAugust 11, 1833
  • DiedJuly 21, 1899
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionLawyer; Politician; Writer; Essayist