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.
HARPER LEEI think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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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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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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