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.
CLARENCE DARROW
The law is a horrible business.
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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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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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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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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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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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