https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 05 Nov 2026 18:31:03 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/ingersoll-robert-green/8836/ https://wist.info/ingersoll-robert-green/8836/#respond Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:29:32 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=8836 As long as we love we will hope to live, and when the one dies that we love we will say: “Oh, that we could meet again,” and whether we do or not it will not be the work of theology. It will be a fact in nature. I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
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