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

Harper Lee

Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
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Best Color Eat Goodness Season Sleep Summer
Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Better Case Exception Law Special
Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Funny Pride Proud Woman
A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Enemy Man Wisdom
As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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Curiosity Frustration Happiness Introduction Joy Kill Reading
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Conscience Listening People Person Rule
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Himself Life Love Relationship Routine
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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Focus Himself Man Mindset Service
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
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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Listening People Personal Perspective See
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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Break Desire Herself Mistake Persistence Strong Talk
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Mindset People Pride Right Talent
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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Black Human Immoral Lying Man Race Trust White Woman
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
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
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Person Point Understand View Yourself

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

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