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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.

Harper Lee

Things are always better in the morning.
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Better Morning One Liner
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
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
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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Better Earth Equality Growth Harm Important Myself Poor Rich Thinking Truth Yourself
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 before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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Deep Live Myself People Spiritual
I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Book Fashion Library Love Myself Old
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Himself Life Love Relationship Routine
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
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
A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Enemy Man Wisdom
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Mindset People Pride Right Talent
I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Kind Myself People Thinking
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
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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Education Learning Writing Yourself
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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Listening People Personal Perspective See
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
Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Better Case Exception Law Special
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
It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Better Fools Silence
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
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 book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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Book Equality Reading Religious Thinking
Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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Born Education Learning
You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner Rare Win Yourself
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Himself Worth Writing

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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