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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.

Clarence Darrow

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
CLARENCE DARROW

Friendship Man Oneself Work
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Coward Discover Easy Ideas Immortal Life Origin
I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
CLARENCE DARROW

Food Hate Myself Opinion
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
CLARENCE DARROW

Death Happiness Myself Notice Reading
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
CLARENCE DARROW

Greatness Idea Monument
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
CLARENCE DARROW

Action Crime Thinking
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
CLARENCE DARROW

Justice Politics Room
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Children Greatness Misfortune Opportunity Rich
The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
CLARENCE DARROW

Better Fight Himself Man
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
CLARENCE DARROW

Offense Oppression Severe Visit
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
CLARENCE DARROW

Contemplation Conversation Cultivation Silence
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
CLARENCE DARROW

Children Fit Live Mercy
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
CLARENCE DARROW

Compliment Ignorance Insult Man Myself Pretend
The trouble with law is lawyers.
CLARENCE DARROW

Law Lawyer Trouble
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
CLARENCE DARROW

Custom Ideas Law Old Ourselves Responsibility
Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
CLARENCE DARROW

Civilization Scope Trial

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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