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.
CLARENCE DARROWIf you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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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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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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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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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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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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