Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
HARPER LEEThings are always better in the morning.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.
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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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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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