Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
HARPER LEEAs 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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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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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 rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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