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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
Writer
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
Honestly
None
Meet
Life
Heroically

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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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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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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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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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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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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.
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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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