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Clarence Darrow Quotes: Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
         

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.


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