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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

Harper Lee

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
Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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Desire Feeling Group Myself Woman
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Himself Worth 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
I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Book Fashion Library Love Myself Old
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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Black Human Immoral Lying Man Race Trust White 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
Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Better Case Exception Law Special
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
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
Things are always better in the morning.
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Better Morning One Liner
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
Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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Alive Book Cooperation Fake Myself Rest
Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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Born Education Learning
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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Listening People Personal Perspective See
A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Enemy Man Wisdom

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