None meet life honestly and few heroically.
CLARENCE DARROW
All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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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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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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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 origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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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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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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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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