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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

Harper Lee

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
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
A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Enemy Man Wisdom
Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Funny Pride Proud Woman
I do my best to love everybody.
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Best Compassionate Kindness Love Myself One Liner
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
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
It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Better Fools Silence
Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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Born Education Learning
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
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
My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
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Best God Goodness Hope Limitation Myself Objective Talent Worst
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Himself Life Love Relationship Routine
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
She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
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Break Desire Herself Mistake Persistence Strong Talk
Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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Alive Book Cooperation Fake Myself Rest

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