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Great wealth often curses all who touch 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
Wealth
Often
Great
Curses
Curse
Touch

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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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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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