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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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"You never really sympathize a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk effectually in it."
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. Ane does not beloved animate."
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the thought that courage is a man with a gun in his paw. Information technology's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no thing what."
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"People generally see what they expect for, and hear what they listen for."
― Harper Lee, To Impale a Mockingbird

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person'southward censor."
― Harper Lee, To Impale a Mockingbird

"Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one homo is worse than a whisky canteen 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 ane, and y'all can await down the street and meet the results."
― Harper Lee, To Impale a Mockingbird

"Atticus, he was existent nice."

"Most people are, Scout, when you finally run across them."
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"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 alive with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"Atticus said to Jem 1 twenty-four hour period, "I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll become after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you desire, if yous can hit 'em, simply retrieve it'due south a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say information technology was a sin to practise something, and I asked Miss Maudie about information technology. "Your male parent's right," she said. "Mockingbirds don't practice one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corn cribs, they don't do one affair just sing their hearts out for usa. That'southward why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"Every bit you lot grow older, yous'll run into white men cheat black men every day of your life, merely permit me tell y'all something and don't yous forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black human being, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white human is trash"
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"It was times similar these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who e'er lived."
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"Mockingbirds don't practise one matter but brand music for united states of america to enjoy. They don't eat upwards people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't practice one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"Real courage is when yous know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no thing what."
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"You just hold your head loftier and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change.
-Atticus Finch"
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"Information technology's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad proper noun. Information technology just shows you how poor that person is, information technology doesn't hurt you."
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"When a child asks you something, respond him, for goodness sake. But don't make a product of it. Children are children, but they tin spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em."
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for united states of america non to attempt to win."
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all akin, why do they become out of their fashion to despise each other? Scout, I retrieve I'm beginning to sympathize something. I recollect I'1000 commencement to understand why Boo Radley'south stayed shut up in the firm all this time. It'due south because he wants to stay within."
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"We're paying the highest tribute y'all tin pay a man. We trust him to do correct. Information technology'south that simple."
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"I was born skilful but had grown progressively worse every year.
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― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"You lot tin choose your friends but yous sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and information technology makes you look correct airheaded when you lot don't."
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and fiddling things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two lather dolls, a broken scout and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: nosotros had given him nothing, and it made me sad."
― Harper Lee, To Impale a Mockingbird

"There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next earth they've never learned to live in this one, and you can await down the street and encounter the results."
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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