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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.

Harper Lee

As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
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Better Earth Equality Growth Harm Important Myself Poor Rich Thinking Truth 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
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
It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Better Fools Silence
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.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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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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Acknowledgement Choice Family Friendship Right Yourself
Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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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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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.
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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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