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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.

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
Iconoclast
Severest
Possibly
Escape
Criticism

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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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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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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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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
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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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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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