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We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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 law is a horrible business.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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