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

Harper Lee

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
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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Best Conduct Ourselves Time
Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Appearance Bad One Liner
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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Better Earth Equality Growth Harm Important Myself Poor Rich Thinking Truth Yourself
But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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Deep Live Myself People Spiritual
Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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Alive Book Cooperation Fake Myself Rest
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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Man Myself Pay Right Simplicity Trust
Things are always better in the morning.
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Better Morning One Liner
I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
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Advice Aspiration Career Development Hide Myself Wisdom Writing
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Person Point Understand View Yourself
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
Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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Action Character Determination Dimension Novel Story
I do my best to love everybody.
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Best Compassionate Kindness Love Myself One Liner
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Conscience Listening People Person Rule
Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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Hands Man Oneself Religious Worst
I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system – that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
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Believe Court Health Ideal Integrity Live Work

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

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