I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
HARPER LEEIt’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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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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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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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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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I do my best to love everybody.
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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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