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Real courage is when you know youre licked before you begin, but y

Real courage is when you know youre licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. – Harper Lee

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Folks dont like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. Youre not gonna change any of them by talking right, theyve got to want to learn themselves, and when they dont want to learn theres nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language. – Harper Lee

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As you grow older, youll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and dont you forget it — whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash. – Harper Lee

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. – Harper Lee

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Never undertake anything for which you wouldnt have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something. – Carson Daly

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. – George Bernard Shaw

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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life. – Benjamin Disraeli

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