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The purpose of life is to live it.

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
Purpose
Live
Life

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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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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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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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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Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
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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 first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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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 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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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.
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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 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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