"It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the methods of an ancient and barbarous world in our dealing with crime. So long as this is observed and exercised there can be no change except to heap more cruelties and more wretchedness upon those who are the victims of our foolish system."

-- Clarence Darrow

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“On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.”
“Being a Christian means renouncing ourselves, taking up the cross and carrying it with Jesus. There is no other way.”
“Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.”
“When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity.”

Source : "Sketches from Life, Vol. 1-2". Book by Laman Blanchard, "That what Everybody Says must be True", 1846.
“Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well”
“I think happy and hope is more hopeful when you acknowledge that there's awful things too.”
“I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.”

Source : "My favourite table". Interview with Neil Norman, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2007.
“The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.”

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