A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
HARPER LEEThings are never as bad as they seem.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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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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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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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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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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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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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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