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I just know Maycomb. I'm not in the least sensitive about it, but good Lord, I'm certainly aware of it.

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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 loo...more

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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

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Let the dead bury the dead...

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If we followed our feelings all the time, we'd be like cats chasin' their tails.

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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.

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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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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.

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We can't always have our druthers.

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Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so b...more

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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, and you can look down the stre...more