Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
CLARENCE DARROWEach child should be more intelligent than his parents.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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You can only be free if I am free.
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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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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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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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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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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