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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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Plymouth
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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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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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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
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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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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
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Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.
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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.
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