Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
CLARENCE DARROWInside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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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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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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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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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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