Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
CLARENCE DARROWNone meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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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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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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