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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

Harper Lee

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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Education Learning Writing Yourself
A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Enemy Man Wisdom
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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Carry Color Deal Man People Place Right Room Way
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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Appearance Beginning Girl Happiness Skills
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Person Point Understand View Yourself
You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.
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Acknowledgement Choice Family Friendship Right Yourself
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
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Courage Hands Ideas Reality Weapon
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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Brave Father Hate Live Man Myself Thinking Time War Weapon
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Conscience Listening People Person Rule
You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner Rare Win Yourself
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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Beautiful Language Love Struggle Substitute
Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Better Case Exception Law Special
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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Family Myself Possible Protection Son Ugly World
There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
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Born Father Insult Job Man World Yourself
Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Funny Pride Proud Woman
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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Book Equality Reading Religious Thinking

I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

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