A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the …

Robert Green Ingersoll
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A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing. ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). The works of Robert G. Ingersoll, p.108, Library of Alexandria
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