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• You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

  Harper Lee

  Silly, Looks, Ems

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.182, Random House

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• You never really know a man until you have divorced him.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Divorce, Funny Relationship, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

  Harper Lee

  Winning, Years, Trying

  Harper Lee (1970). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Dramatic Publishing

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  People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

  Harper Lee

  Powerful, People, Empathy

  Harper Lee (1970). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.46, Dramatic Publishing

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• So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Character, Animal

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, 1962.

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• I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

  Harper Lee

  Laughing, Kind, Clown

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.176, Random House

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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.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Attention, Language

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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

  Harper Lee

  Powerful, Pride, People

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• 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.

  Harper Lee

  Wisdom, Heart, Garden

  FaceBook post by Harper Lee from Apr 21, 2015

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• 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.

  Harper Lee

  Girl, Thinking, Skills

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.96, Random House

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• They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.

  Harper Lee

  Good Night, Children, Done

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.173, Random House

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• There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

  Harper Lee

  Jobs, Father, Men

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

  Harper Lee

  Inspirational, Courage, Perseverance

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, community.sparknotes.com. July 11, 1960.

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• I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Differences, People

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.44, Infobase Publishing

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  You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

  Harper Lee

  Powerful, Positivity, Sunshine

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.81, Infobase Publishing

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• The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

  Harper Lee

  Honesty, Powerful, Integrity

  To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 11 (1960)

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• With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

  Harper Lee

  Routine, Unbearable, Jem And Scout

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Sake, Jem And Scout

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout

  Harper Lee

  Years, Jem And Scout, Mockingbird

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• Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

  Harper Lee

  Adjectives, Jem And Scout, Facts

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• 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. 'There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.' You got it backwards, Dill,' said Jem. 'Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them.' Well I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Track, Laughing

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.176, Random House

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• Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.

  Harper Lee

  Desire, Bunch, Kill A Mockingbird

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.31, Infobase Publishing

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• Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

  Harper Lee

  Blue, Ems, Want

  To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) ch. 10

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• Let the dead bury the dead.

  Harper Lee

  Mockingbird, Kill A Mockingbird, Kill A Mockingbird Mockingbird

  Christopher Sergel, Harper Lee (1995). “The Play of To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.102, Heinemann

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• 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 of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

  Harper Lee

  God, Men, Hands

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.

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