You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
HARPER LEEWe’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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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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My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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