But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
HARPER LEEThe one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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 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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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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