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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

Harper Lee

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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Beginning Cleaning End Faith Prejudice Reason
Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Better Case Exception Law Special
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
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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Education Learning Writing Yourself
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
I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system – that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
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Believe Court Health Ideal Integrity Live Work
There’s no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There’s no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
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Beautiful Language Love Struggle Substitute
Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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Bird Destroy Enjoyment Garden Heart Music Sin Sing
Things are always better in the morning.
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Better Morning One Liner
I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Book Fashion Library Love Myself Old
It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Better Fools Silence
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
Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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Hands Man Oneself Religious Worst
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
But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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Deep Live Myself People Spiritual
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

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