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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.

Clarence Darrow

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Business Funny Honesty Law Pretend
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Children Himself Intelligence Parents
You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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End Human Important Method Place Society
The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Death Fear God Investigation Study Wisdom
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Children Fit Live Mercy
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Constitution Laws Myself
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Contemplation Conversation Cultivation Silence
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Afflict Comfortable Compassionate Human
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Clothes Fit Law People Service
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Fight Oneself Reason
Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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Chase Freedom Hell Touch Truth Yourself
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
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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Death Happiness Myself Notice Reading
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe God Mom Myself
I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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Battle Fight Life Live Myself Oppression Poor Power Weakness
Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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Conflict Fight Forever Liberty Man Obligation Preservation Tolerance

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