I said I would like it very much, which was a lie, but one must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

Harper Lee


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Finders were keepers unless title was proven.

Harper Lee


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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.

Harper Lee

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Lawyers, I suppose were once children, too

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You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.

Harper Lee

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There's some folks who don't eat like us," she whispered fiercely, "but you ain't called on to contradict 'em at the table when they don't. That boy's yo' comp'ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear?

Harper Lee


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Nobody knew what form of intimidation Mr. Radley employed to keep Boo out of sight, but Jem figured that Mr. Radley kept him chained to the bed most of the time. Atticus said no, it wasn't that sort of thing, that there were other ways of making people into ghosts.

Harper Lee


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The cold water embraced hime like no woman ever could

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Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer's day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.

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Asked him and he said he wasn't. Besides, nothin's real scary except on books.

Harper Lee


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