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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.
"Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. "Ain't hateful, just persuades him- 's not like you'd chunk him in the fire," Jem growled. "How do you know a match don't hurt him?" "Turtles can't feel , stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh?
Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it — seems that only the children weep. Good night.
Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.
You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
I'm little but I'm old.
Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.