Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
HARPER LEEPrejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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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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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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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.
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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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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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