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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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 really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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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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If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.
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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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