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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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Lawyer
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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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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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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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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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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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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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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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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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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