I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
CLARENCE DARROWGreat wealth often curses all who touch it.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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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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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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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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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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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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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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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The law is a horrible business.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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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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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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