Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
CLARENCE DARROWProbably 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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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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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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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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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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