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We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.
We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.
Approximate author period: c. 1897 AD · industrial
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- Clarence Darrow
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- Approximate author period: c. 1897 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period evidence for Clarence Darrow: life dates 1857 to 1938. Wikidata Q449791, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q449791 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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