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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
Writer
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
Fighting
Better
Men
Fights
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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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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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Lawyers are natural politicians.
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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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