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

Clarence Darrow

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Children Doubt Thinking Tragedy
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
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Offense Oppression Severe Visit
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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Errors Evil Soul Truth
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Law Poet Wreck
The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Brain Creation Money Truth
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.
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Compliment Ignorance Insult Man Myself Pretend
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Born Greatness Man
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Bad Habit People Work Worst
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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Defect Exception Intelligence Reality
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Children Live Ourselves Parents Ruin
Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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End Environment Important Lesson Life Live Relation
The law is a horrible business.
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Business Horrible One Liner
The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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Audience Compare Death Life Public Reality Small Theatre
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Poor Rich Trial
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking

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

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