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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.

Harper Lee

Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Better Case Exception Law Special
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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Focus Himself Man Mindset Service
My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
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Best God Goodness Hope Limitation Myself Objective Talent Worst
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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Attention Attraction Bad Children Language Time
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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Carry Color Deal Man People Place Right Room Way
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
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Courage Hands Ideas Reality Weapon
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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Answer Children Goodness Simplicity Yourself
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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Born Father Insult Job Man World Yourself
You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.
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Acknowledgement Choice Family Friendship Right Yourself
Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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Hands Man Oneself Religious Worst
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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Brave Father Hate Live Man Myself Thinking Time War Weapon
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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Family Myself Possible Protection Son Ugly World
Things are always better in the morning.
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Better Morning One Liner
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Person Point Understand View Yourself
Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Funny Pride Proud Woman
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Conscience Listening People Person Rule

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