The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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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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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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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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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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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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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