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Hell, that's why they make erasers.

— Clarence Darrow

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  1. 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.
  2. When Voltaire was born there was really but one church which, of course, was ignorant, tyrannical and barbarous in the extreme. All creeds …
  3. I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
  4. Had the modern professors of eugenics had power in France in 1694, they probably would not have permitted such a child to have been born. T…
  5. It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change.
  6. Even Voltaire's father could not make a lawyer out of a genius. To be a good lawyer, one must have a mind and a disposition to venerate the…
  7. History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
  8. The usual is always mediocre. When nature takes it into her head to make a man, she fits him with her own equipment and educates him in her…

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