When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

Harper Lee

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There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

Harper Lee


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That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?

Harper Lee

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You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep...

Harper Lee


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Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful.
"Ain't hateful, just persuades him- 's not like you'd chunk him in the fire," Jem growled.
"How do you know a match don't hurt him?"
"Turtles can't feel , stupid," said Jem.
"Were you ever a turtle, huh?

Harper Lee

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She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.

Harper Lee

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Pass the damn ham, please.

Harper Lee


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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.

Harper Lee

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First of all," he said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

Harper Lee

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I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read

Harper Lee

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