There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
CLARENCE DARROWInside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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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.
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