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.
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.
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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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Writing is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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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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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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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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