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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Clarence Darrow

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Contemplation Conversation Cultivation Silence
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Case Jury Law Reality
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Happiness Laughter People Religion Yourself
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Modern Safety Time Truth Voice
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
To think is to differ.
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Difference One Liner Thinking
There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Contentment Kill Sick
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Constitution Laws Myself
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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Choice Content Eat Judgment Leadership Life Oneself
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Blank Forever Home Live Man Prison
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Law Poet Wreck
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Poor Rich Trial
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
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
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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Beginning Believe Myself President
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

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