Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
HARPER LEEBut before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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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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We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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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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I do my best to love everybody.
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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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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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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