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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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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Enemy Man Wisdom
Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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Circumstance Insult Night Proud Stranger Yourself
We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
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Man Myself Pay Right Simplicity Trust
It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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Bad Hurt Insult Name Person Poor Thinking Yourself
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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Breathe Fear Lose Love Myself Oneself Reading
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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Best Color Eat Goodness Season Sleep Summer
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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Listening People Personal Perspective See
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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Advice Aspiration Career Development Hide Myself Wisdom Writing
Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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Bird Destroy Enjoyment Garden Heart Music Sin Sing
Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Better Case Exception Law Special
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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Best Conduct Ourselves Time
Things are always better in the morning.
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Better Morning One Liner
I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Book Fashion Library Love Myself Old
You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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Place Understand Walk Yourself
Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Funny Pride Proud Woman
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

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

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