The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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 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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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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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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.
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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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