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There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.

Harper Lee

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
HARPER LEE

Born Father Insult Job Man World Yourself
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
Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
HARPER LEE

Born Education Learning
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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Breathe Fear Lose Love Myself Oneself Reading
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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Courage Hands Ideas Reality Weapon
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
Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Appearance Bad One Liner
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Himself Worth Writing
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
You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner Rare Win Yourself
Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Better Case Exception Law Special
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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Appearance Beginning Girl Happiness Skills
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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Focus Himself Man Mindset Service
Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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Hands Man Oneself Religious Worst
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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Attention Attraction Bad Children Language Time

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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