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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

Harper Lee

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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Bad Hurt Insult Name Person Poor Thinking 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
I do my best to love everybody.
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Best Compassionate Kindness Love Myself One Liner
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
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Conscience Listening People Person Rule
There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.
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Family Myself Possible Protection Son Ugly World
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Himself Worth Writing
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
I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Kind Myself People Thinking
Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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Born Education Learning
A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Enemy Man Wisdom
But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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Deep Live Myself People Spiritual
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
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
Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant.
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Focus Himself Man Mindset Service
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

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

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