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None meet life honestly and few heroically.

Clarence Darrow

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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Bad Cruelty Fear Goodness Himself People Punishment
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Born Greatness Man
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Business Funny Honesty Law Pretend
I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Kill Myself Notice Reading Satisfaction
Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Chase Hell One Liner Truth
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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Book Hope Myself Royal Writing
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking
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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End Human Important Method Place Society
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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Animal Death Emotion Enjoyment Hate Help
I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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Distribution Fact Greatness Honesty Man Money Myself Question
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Fight Oneself Reason
No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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Citizenship Determination Goodness Law Man Worth
For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Judgement Leaving Room Understand
The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Life Live Purpose Woman
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Happiness Himself Man Wrong
I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Myself Surprise Wrong

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