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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
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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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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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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