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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.
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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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