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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
Writer
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
Lost
Worth
Ones
Causes
Fighting

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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.
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The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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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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Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.
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