There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
HARPER LEELadies pick funny things to be proud of.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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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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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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I do my best to love everybody.
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My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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