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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

Harper Lee

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
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
Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Better Case Exception Law Special
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
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
Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Funny Pride Proud Woman
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Conscience Listening People Person Rule
Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Appearance Bad One Liner
I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system – that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
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Believe Court Health Ideal Integrity Live Work
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
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
Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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Desire Feeling Group Myself Woman
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Person Point Understand View Yourself
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
Things are always better in the morning.
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Better Morning One Liner

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