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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

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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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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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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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Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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Criminal cases receive the attention of the press. The cruel and disagreeable things of life are more apt to get the newspaper space than the pleasant ones. It must be that most people enjoy hearing of and reading about the troubles of others. Perhaps men unconsciously feel that they rise in the general level as others go down.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth
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Lawyers are natural politicians.
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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.
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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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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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