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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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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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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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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. – Francis Bacon

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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France

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In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit? – Aubrey Beardsley

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The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life which does not include at least two hypochondriacs, one sadist, and one old man who spills food down the front of his vest. – Robert Benchley

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My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. Thats the world in which I grew up, and thats a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves. – Ted Cruz

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A poor man is all schemes. – Proverb

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Religions in the heart, not in the knees. – Douglas William Jerrold

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