It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
HARPER LEEShe knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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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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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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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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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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