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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does no

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. – 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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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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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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The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. – Hugh Blair

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When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign — a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they dont want to hear the word mentioned. – Italo Calvino

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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. – Henry Ward Beecher

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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. – Italo Calvino

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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. – Virginia Woolf

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Today is Valentines Day – or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day! – Jay Leno

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