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The law is a horrible business.

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
Law
Business
Horrible

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Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.
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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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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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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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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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