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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

Harper Lee

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
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
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
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 always better in the morning.
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Better Morning One Liner
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
A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Enemy Man Wisdom
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
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Person Point Understand View Yourself
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
Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Appearance Bad One Liner
I do my best to love everybody.
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Best Compassionate Kindness Love Myself One Liner
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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Listening People Personal Perspective See
It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Better Fools Silence
You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner Rare Win Yourself
She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
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Appearance Beginning Girl Happiness Skills

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

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