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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

Clarence Darrow

Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Children Himself Intelligence Parents
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
I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe Goodness Mom Myself
Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Forget Jury Lost Win
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Law Poet Wreck
Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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Condition Conservative Effort Improvement Man Reaction War
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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Dreams Fact Forever Imagination Perspective Right True
The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Law Lawyer Trouble
Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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Case Lawyer Lose Myself Win
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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Face Greatness Growth Lonely Myself Opinion Stand
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
If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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Better Education Human Improvement Man Social
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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Doubt Explanation Mystery Origin Question Universe
I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Cruelty Myself Right Suspicious
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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Ignorance Man Myself Pretend
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Constitution Laws Myself

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