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Don't you study about other folks's business till you take care of your own.

Harper Lee

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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.
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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 know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.
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She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad.
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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.
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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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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 a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is the court.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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.
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You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep.
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