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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
Horrible
Law
Business

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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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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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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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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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I am pleading for the future I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.
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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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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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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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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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