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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
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Criticism
Iconoclast
Severest
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The law is a horrible business.
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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.
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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
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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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The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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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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I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.
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Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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