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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

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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
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