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

Quote by Harper Lee

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Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think...

Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think...

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway...

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway...

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one...

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one...

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

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

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

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had...

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had...

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your...

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your...

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not...

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not...

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your...

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your...

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

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

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature

A book without an index is like a mind without a memory

A book without an index is like a mind without a memory

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will...

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will...

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human...

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human...

A great speech is literature.

A great speech is literature.

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a...

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a...

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those...

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those...

As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value

As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value