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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Clarence Darrow

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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End Environment Important Lesson Life Live Relation
In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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Enough Freedom Necessary Order
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Hate Injustice Land Patriot True
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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Compliment Ignorance Insult Man Myself Pretend
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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Errors Evil Soul Truth
I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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Beginning Doubt Fear Feeling Myself Wisdom
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
The law is a horrible business.
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Business Horrible One Liner
The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Law Lawyer Trouble
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
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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Forever Object Rebel World Wrong
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Contemplation Conversation Cultivation Silence
Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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Case Lawyer Lose Myself Win
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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Defect Exception Intelligence Reality
It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Oneself Origin Teaching Theory
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Fight Oneself Reason

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