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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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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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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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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 man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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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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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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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
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