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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
Clarence Darrow
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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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