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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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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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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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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.
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