The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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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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Things are always better in the morning.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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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 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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
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