Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.

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Clarence Seward Darrow (April 18 1857 – March 13 1938) was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks (1924) for defending Ossian Sweet and defending John T. Scopes in the Scopes "Monkey" Trial (1925) in which he opposed William Jennings Bryan (statesman noted orator and 3-time presidential candidate).