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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

Harper Lee

Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
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Best Color Eat Goodness Season Sleep Summer
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
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Courage Hands Ideas Reality Weapon
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
I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.
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Coffee Creative People Sports Thinking Work Yourself
Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Appearance Bad One Liner
She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
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Break Desire Herself Mistake Persistence Strong Talk
I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Kind Myself People Thinking
A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Enemy Man Wisdom
Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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Circumstance Insult Night Proud Stranger Yourself
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
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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Book Equality Reading Religious Thinking
But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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Deep Live Myself People Spiritual
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Conscience Listening People Person Rule
It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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Bad Hurt Insult Name Person Poor Thinking Yourself
You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner Rare Win Yourself

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