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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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I wanted you see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.

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(...) when a man's looking down the double barrel of a shotgun, he picks up the first weapon he can find to defend himself, be it a stone or a stick o...more

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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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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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Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to.

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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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We can't always have our druthers.

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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...more

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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing 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