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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

Harper Lee

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
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
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
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
I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Kind Myself People Thinking
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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Brave Father Hate Live Man Myself Thinking Time War Weapon
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
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
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
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Person Point Understand View Yourself
Things are always better in the morning.
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Better Morning One Liner
It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Better Fools Silence
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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Best Color Eat Goodness Season Sleep Summer
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Conscience Listening People Person Rule
Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Funny Pride Proud Woman
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

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

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