The law is a horrible business.
CLARENCE DARROWOne cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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 have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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To think is to differ.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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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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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 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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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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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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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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