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 LEEThe 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.
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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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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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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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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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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