The minister asks, 'What right have you to hope? It is sacrilegious to…

Robert Green Ingersoll
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The minister asks, 'What right have you to hope? It is sacrilegious to you.' But, whether the clergy like it or not, I shall always express my real opinion, and shall always be glad to say to those who mourn: 'There is in death, as I believe, nothing worse than sleep. Hope for as much better as you can.' ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1902). Interviews
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