“ I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. ”
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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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“ Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. ”
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“ I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide. ”
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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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“ 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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“ 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 look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal. ”
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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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“ Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them. ”
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“ Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. ”
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“ The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash. ”
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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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“ 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 busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results. ”
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“ Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.” “I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?” “The way you tell it, it is. ”
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“ Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. ”
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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 but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. ”
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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 faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em. ”
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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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“ You deny them hope... You are telling them that Jesus loves them, but not much. ”
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“ Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends. ”
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“ Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a selfexploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent. ”
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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 busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results. ”
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“ Просто есть такие люди, они... они чересчур много думают о том свете и потому никак не научатся жить на этом. (Мисс Моди Эткинсон Глазастику Финч) ”
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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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