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Harper Lee has 190 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in…
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I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal…
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Wordsworth was right when he said that we trail clouds of glory as we come into the world, that we are born…
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Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but…
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Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still…
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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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Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had,…
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Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.
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I didn't expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the…
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As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to…
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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…
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Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I made all my generals out of mud.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed.…
— Leonard Cohen
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As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their…
— Duke of Wellington
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Mad, is he? Then I hope that he will bite some of my other generals!
— George III
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We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but…
— Mark Twain
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In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise:…
— Sun Tzu
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Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.
— Zhuge Liang
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The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls is the…
— Sun Tzu
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When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.
— Duke of Wellington
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During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and…
— Abraham Lincoln
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