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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.

Harper Lee

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Person Point Understand View Yourself
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Mindset People Pride Right Talent
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
A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Enemy Man Wisdom
You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner Rare Win Yourself
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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Best God Goodness Hope Limitation Myself Objective Talent Worst
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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Man Myself Pay Right Simplicity Trust
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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Coffee Creative People Sports Thinking Work Yourself
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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Listening People Personal Perspective See
It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Better Fools Silence
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
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
Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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Born Education Learning
Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.
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Deep Different Discipline Learning People Process Quite Writer Writing
I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Kind Myself People Thinking
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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Born Father Insult Job Man World Yourself

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