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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.

Harper Lee

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
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Conscience Listening People Person Rule
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
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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Beginning Cleaning End Faith Prejudice Reason
A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Enemy Man Wisdom
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Mindset People Pride Right Talent
As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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Curiosity Frustration Happiness Introduction Joy Kill Reading
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Himself Life Love Relationship Routine
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
It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Better Fools Silence
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
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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Acknowledgement Choice Family Friendship Right Yourself
I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Kind Myself People Thinking
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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Listening People Personal Perspective See
She 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.
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Break Desire Herself Mistake Persistence Strong Talk
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

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