"Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning."
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"I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird."
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"Nothin’s real scary except in books."
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"There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is the court."
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"Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change: Jem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the aberrations of nature, thereby causing unhappiness to our neighbors and discomfort to ourselves."
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"I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society."
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"Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding."
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"I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with."
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"See there?" Jem was scowling triumphantly. "Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin"
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"I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work."
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"Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant."
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"Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry."
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"I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again."
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"Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad."
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"I don't hafta take his sass"
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"One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them."
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"Finders were keepers unless title was proven."
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"When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains."
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"Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean."
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"You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep."
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