Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bott…

Harper Lee
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Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results. ✨ To Kill a Mockingbird. Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.
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