We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
HARPER LEEThe 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant.
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The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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