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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.

Harper Lee

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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Circumstance Insult Night Proud Stranger Yourself
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
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 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
Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women – black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
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Black Human Immoral Lying Man Race Trust White Woman
I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system – that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
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Believe Court Health Ideal Integrity Live Work
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
Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Better Case Exception Law Special
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
Things are always better in the morning.
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Better Morning One Liner
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
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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Deep Different Discipline Learning People Process Quite Writer Writing
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Person Point Understand View Yourself
But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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Deep Live Myself People Spiritual
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 rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner Rare Win Yourself

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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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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