You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEEBad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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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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