Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
HARPER LEEPrejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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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.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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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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There’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.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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