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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Clarence Darrow

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

Brain Jealous Liberty Man Soul
To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
CLARENCE DARROW

Doubt Explanation Mystery Origin Question Universe
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
CLARENCE DARROW

Believe Document Human Personal
In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
CLARENCE DARROW

Enough Freedom Necessary Order
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
CLARENCE DARROW

Action Emotion Government Human
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
CLARENCE DARROW

Dreams Fact Forever Imagination Perspective Right True
There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
CLARENCE DARROW

Contentment Kill Sick
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Afraid Devil God Man Universe Woman
Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
CLARENCE DARROW

Accustom Death Horror Man Thinking
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
CLARENCE DARROW

Defect Exception Intelligence Reality
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
CLARENCE DARROW

Happiness Himself Man Wrong
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
CLARENCE DARROW

Offense Oppression Severe Visit
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
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
CLARENCE DARROW

Blank Forever Home Live Man Prison
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
CLARENCE DARROW

Business Funny Honesty Law Pretend
The purpose of life is to live it.
CLARENCE DARROW

Life Live One Liner Purpose

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