The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
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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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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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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She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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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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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
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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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