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Clarence Darrow Quotes: Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
         

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.


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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.



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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.



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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.



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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.



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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate



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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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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 first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.



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I don't think there are any rude questions.



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I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.




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