You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEEPrejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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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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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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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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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’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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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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