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None meet life honestly and few heroically.

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
Life
Heroically
Honestly
None
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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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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god he would be a devil.
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The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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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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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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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.
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Cheating, having 'hoes,' none of that is cute. To be honest, it's really immature. I don't see how people take pride in breaking someone's heart. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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.
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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