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

Harper Lee

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
It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Better Fools Silence
Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Appearance Bad One Liner
Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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Hands Man Oneself Religious Worst
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Mindset People Pride Right Talent
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
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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Appearance Beginning Girl Happiness Skills
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Person Point Understand View Yourself
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Conscience Listening People Person Rule
As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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Curiosity Frustration Happiness Introduction Joy Kill Reading
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
You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner Rare Win Yourself
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
My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
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Best God Goodness Hope Limitation Myself Objective Talent Worst
Things are always better in the morning.
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Better Morning One Liner
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
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Attention Attraction Bad Children Language Time
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
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
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
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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Brave Father Hate Live Man Myself Thinking Time War Weapon
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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Break Desire Herself Mistake Persistence Strong Talk
I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Book Fashion Library Love Myself Old
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
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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Answer Children Goodness Simplicity Yourself
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
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

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