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.
CLARENCE DARROWInstead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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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.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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The law is a horrible business.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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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.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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