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Apparently, Mayella's recital had given her confidence, but it was not her father's brash kind: there was something stealthy about hers, like a steady-eyed cat with a twitchy tail. (Harper Lee)
Slowly but surely I began to see the pattern of questions: from questions that Mr. Gilmer did not deem sufficiently irrelevant or immaterial to object to, Atticus was quietly building up before the jury the picture of the Ewell's home life. View quote
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And it's certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. I don't know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit. Of course he shouldn't, but he'll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children? View quote
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for. View quote
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As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal. View quote
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Things are always better in the morning. View quote
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Everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowing. View quote
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It's better to be silent than to be a fool. View quote
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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about? View quote
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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another. View quote
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You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change... (Harper Lee)
You rarely win, but sometimes you do. View quote
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Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. View quote
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You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't. View quote
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Sometimes it's better to bend the law a little in special cases. View quote
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The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. View quote
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Finders were keepers unless title was proven. View quote
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I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout. View quote
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Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. View quote
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere. View quote
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It's not time to worry yet. (Harper Lee)
That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear? View quote
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It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do. View quote
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You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep. View quote
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A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know--doesn't say much for them, does it? View quote
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