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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.

Clarence Darrow

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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Case Lawyer Lose Myself Win
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
CLARENCE DARROW

Beginning Believe Myself President
I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
CLARENCE DARROW

Kill Myself Notice Reading Satisfaction
Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
CLARENCE DARROW

Greatness Money Touch
Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
CLARENCE DARROW

Heroes Idol One Liner
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Food Hate Myself Opinion
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
CLARENCE DARROW

Correct Learning Speak Talk Yourself
In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
CLARENCE DARROW

Enough Freedom Necessary Order
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
CLARENCE DARROW

Children Fit Live Mercy
I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
CLARENCE DARROW

Cruelty Myself Right Suspicious
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
CLARENCE DARROW

Happiness Himself Man Wrong
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
CLARENCE DARROW

Brain Jealous Liberty Man Soul
You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
CLARENCE DARROW

End Human Important Method Place Society
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Object Past Raise Rebel Voice World
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
I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
CLARENCE DARROW

Earth Existence Feeling Himself Home Man

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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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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