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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Harper Lee

But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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Best Conduct Ourselves Time
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
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
Writing is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.
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Education Learning Writing Yourself
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
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Carry Color Deal Man People Place Right Room Way
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
I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Book Fashion Library Love Myself Old
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Mindset People Pride Right Talent
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
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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Bad Hurt Insult Name Person Poor Thinking 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
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
Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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Desire Feeling Group Myself Woman
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
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
Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Appearance Bad One Liner

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

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