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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

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
Men
Life
Purpose
Lives
Living
Women

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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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