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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.

Harper Lee

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
There’s no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There’s no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
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Beautiful Language Love Struggle Substitute
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
Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Better Case Exception Law Special
Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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Hands Man Oneself Religious Worst
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Mindset People Pride Right Talent
Things are always better in the morning.
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Better Morning One Liner
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
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
I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.
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Coffee Creative People Sports Thinking Work 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
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
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Himself Life Love Relationship Routine
I do my best to love everybody.
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Best Compassionate Kindness Love Myself One Liner
I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Book Fashion Library Love Myself Old
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

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