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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.
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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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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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A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.
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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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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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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Criminal cases receive the attention of the press. The cruel and disagreeable things of life are more apt to get the newspaper space than the pleasant ones. It must be that most people enjoy hearing of and reading about the troubles of others. Perhaps men unconsciously feel that they rise in the general level as others go down.
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