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

Clarence Darrow

There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Contentment Kill Sick
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Contemplation Conversation Cultivation Silence
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Case Jury Law Reality
To think is to differ.
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Difference One Liner Thinking
Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Forget Jury Lost Win
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Law Poet Wreck
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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Ignorance Man Myself Pretend
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Poor Rich Trial
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Happiness Laughter People Religion Yourself
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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Beginning Death Fear God Investigation Study Wisdom
I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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Battle Fight Life Live Myself Oppression Poor Power Weakness
Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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Conflict Fight Forever Liberty Man Obligation Preservation Tolerance
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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Condition Conservative Effort Improvement Man Reaction War
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking
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.
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Earth Existence Feeling Himself Home Man
No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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Fear Loyalty Nation Togetherness

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