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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.

Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.
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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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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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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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