"That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human."
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"Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
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"There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one."
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"You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family."
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"Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand."
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"Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere."
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"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em. No... you had the right answer this afternoon, but the wrong reasons. Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it. Hotheadedness isn’t."
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"Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in."
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"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win."
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"They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night."
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