Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
HARPER LEEA man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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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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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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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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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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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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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