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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
Touch
Wealth
Often
Great
Curses
Curse

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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.
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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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