“I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I’d just hate it.”

—  Clarence Darrow

This quote was attributed to Darrow in the biography Clarence Darrow for the Defence (1949), but its earliest known source is from a journal entry of George Sand from 1835.
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