Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
HARPER LEELadies pick funny things to be proud of.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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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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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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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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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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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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