Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
HARPER LEEIt was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.
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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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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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As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
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There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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