Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
CLARENCE DARROWAn idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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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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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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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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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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