It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
HARPER LEEAs 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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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’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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Things are always better in the morning.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
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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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Writing is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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