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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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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
Writer
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
Despair
Inhabited
Living
Prisons
Men
Tombs
Everlasting
Doomed
Blank
Turning
Prison

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