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.
HARPER LEEThings are never as bad as they seem.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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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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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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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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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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