There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
HARPER LEEThere’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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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I do my best to love everybody.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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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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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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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