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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.
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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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