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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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The law is a horrible business.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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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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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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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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You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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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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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Cheating, having 'hoes,' none of that is cute. To be honest, it's really immature. I don't see how people take pride in breaking someone's heart. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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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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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Lawyers are natural politicians.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
Clarence Darrow
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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