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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.

Clarence Darrow

The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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Ability Bravery Coward Greatness Life Physical Strength
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Afflict Comfortable Compassionate Human
Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Civilization Scope Trial
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Business Funny Honesty Law Pretend
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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Book Hope Myself Royal Writing
You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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End Human Important Method Place Society
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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Charity Hate Misfortune Revenge
No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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Citizenship Determination Goodness Law Man Worth
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.
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Accustom Death Horror Man Thinking
You can only be free if I am free.
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Freedom Myself One Liner
The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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Death Himself Man Purpose
The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Law Lawyer Trouble
I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe Goodness Mom Myself
The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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Better Fight Himself Man
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Laughter Lose Power Thinking Yourself
In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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Enough Freedom Necessary Order

There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.

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