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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.

Harper Lee

But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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Deep Live Myself People Spiritual
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
It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Better Fools Silence
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
Things are always better in the morning.
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Better Morning One Liner
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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Beginning Courage Reality See Yourself
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Himself Life Love Relationship Routine
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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Answer Children Goodness Simplicity Yourself
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Person Point Understand View Yourself
I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Kind Myself People Thinking
Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Better Case Exception Law Special
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
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
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
But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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Best Conduct Ourselves Time
Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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Action Character Determination Dimension Novel Story

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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