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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

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
CLARENCE DARROW

Book Hope Myself Royal Writing
Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
CLARENCE DARROW

Condition Conservative Effort Improvement Man Reaction War
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
CLARENCE DARROW

Believe God Mom 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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Choice Content Eat Judgment Leadership Life Oneself
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
CLARENCE DARROW

Happiness Himself Man Wrong
There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
CLARENCE DARROW

Contentment Kill Sick
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
CLARENCE DARROW

Greatness Idea Monument
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
CLARENCE DARROW

Himself Lying Need
Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
CLARENCE DARROW

Kill Murder Notice Potential Reading Satisfaction
An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
CLARENCE DARROW

Doubt Doubtful Faith Religious
Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
CLARENCE DARROW

Heroes Idol One Liner
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Death Emotion Greatness Man Reading Satisfaction Strong
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
CLARENCE DARROW

Best Common Friendship Help Kind Passenger
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
CLARENCE DARROW

Face Greatness Growth Lonely Myself Opinion Stand
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
CLARENCE DARROW

Blank Forever Home Live Man Prison
The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
CLARENCE DARROW

Defend Delusion Land Strong Weakness

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.

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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.

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