Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
CLARENCE DARROWAutobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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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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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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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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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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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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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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