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Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

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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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If a man says to you, "This is the truth," and you believe him, and you discover what he says is not the truth, you are disappointed and you make sure...more

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Don't you oh well me,sir," Miss Maudie replied, recognizing Jem's fatalistic noises, "you are not old enough to appreciate what I said.

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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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So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process.

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She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded fro...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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He might have hurt me a little,' Atticus conceded, 'but sn, you'll understand folks a little better when you're older. A mob's always made up of peopl...more

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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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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