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The trouble with law is lawyers.

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 purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Cheating, having 'hoes,' none of that is cute. To be honest, it's really immature. I don't see how people take pride in breaking someone's heart. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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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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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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god he would be a devil.
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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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I am pleading for the future I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.
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