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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

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
But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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Deep Live Myself People Spiritual
It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Better Fools Silence
A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Enemy Man Wisdom
I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
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Advice Aspiration Career Development Hide Myself Wisdom Writing
I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Kind Myself People Thinking
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
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Mindset People Pride Right Talent
You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner Rare Win Yourself
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
There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
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Born Father Insult Job Man World Yourself
As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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Curiosity Frustration Happiness Introduction Joy Kill Reading
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
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 in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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Desire Feeling Group Myself Woman
Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Better Case Exception Law Special

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