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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
Clarence S. Darrow
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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The purpose of life is to live it.
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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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