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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.

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
Working
Work
Alot
People
Retired
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Habits
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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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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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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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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Lawyers are natural politicians.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
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