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.
HARPER LEEWhen 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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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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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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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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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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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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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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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.
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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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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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