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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

Harper Lee

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women – black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
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Black Human Immoral Lying Man Race Trust White Woman
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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Breathe Fear Lose Love Myself Oneself Reading
I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Book Fashion Library Love Myself Old
We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
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Man Myself Pay Right Simplicity Trust
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
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Carry Color Deal Man People Place Right Room Way
Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Funny Pride Proud Woman
Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant.
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Focus Himself Man Mindset Service
You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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Place Understand Walk Yourself
You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.
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Acknowledgement Choice Family Friendship Right Yourself
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Himself Worth Writing
Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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Desire Feeling Group Myself Woman
As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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Curiosity Frustration Happiness Introduction Joy Kill Reading
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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Listening People Personal Perspective See
She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
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Appearance Beginning Girl Happiness Skills
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Himself Life Love Relationship Routine
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Person Point Understand View Yourself

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

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