The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
CLARENCE DARROWEven if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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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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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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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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