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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.
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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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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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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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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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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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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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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