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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
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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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.
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The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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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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