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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.

Harper Lee

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
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’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
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Mindset People Pride Right Talent
I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Book Fashion Library Love Myself Old
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
Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Better Case Exception Law Special
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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Family Myself Possible Protection Son Ugly World
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Conscience Listening People Person Rule
I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
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Advice Aspiration Career Development Hide Myself Wisdom Writing
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Himself Worth Writing
Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Funny Pride Proud Woman
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
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
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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Attention Attraction Bad Children Language Time

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