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Lawyers are natural politicians.

Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
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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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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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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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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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