“It is just beyond Maryland, which is another obstacle. I heard the other day that God originally made oysters with legs, and afterward took them off, knowing that the people of Delaware would starve to death before they would run to catch anything.”

—  Robert G. Ingersoll

Interview with the Chicago Times, Feb. 14, 1881.

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