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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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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
Writer
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
Serious
Says
Everything
Joke
Humorous
Jokes
Atheism
Dead

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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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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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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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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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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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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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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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There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
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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 trouble with law is lawyers.
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One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.
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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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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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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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