None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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