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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.

Harper Lee

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
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
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
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
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
I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Book Fashion Library Love Myself Old
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
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
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
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
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
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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Bird Destroy Enjoyment Garden Heart Music Sin Sing
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
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Attention Attraction Bad Children Language Time
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
It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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Bad Hurt Insult Name Person Poor Thinking Yourself

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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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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