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One Quotes by Harper Lee
- Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra…
- Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
- 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…
- My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He has absolutely no…
- I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so…
- I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
- 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 one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
- Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
- Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really…
- There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.
- Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind…
- Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.
- There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of…
- If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of…
- No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to…
- In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose.
- I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them…
- 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…
- I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. Yes sir, a clown,' he said.…
- Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic…
- There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.
- One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.
- When stalking one’s prey, it is best to take one’s time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.
- About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?" "I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
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