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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

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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Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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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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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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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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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
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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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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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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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I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.
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