But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal- there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution gentlemen, is a court. It can be the Supreme Court of the United States or the humblest JP court in the land, or this honourable court which you serve. Our courts have their faults as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal

Harper Lee

Mots clés atticus-finch created-equal

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Until I feared I would loose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Harper Lee

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The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not die, I crammed it into my mouth: Wrigley's Double Mint.

Harper Lee

Mots clés die mockingbird gum sniff

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Prije nego što mogu živjeti s drugima, moram moći živjeti sam sa sobom.

Harper Lee

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I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but i know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.....

Mockingbirds don't do one thing to but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's garden, 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.

Harper Lee

Mots clés music singing sin mockingbird

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Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before

Harper Lee

Mots clés jem to-kill-a-mockingbird harper-lee

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It's better to be silent than to be a fool.

Harper Lee

Mots clés fool better silent

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Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.

Harper Lee

Mots clés ladies hot-summer talcum teacakes

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Uno es valiente cuando, sabiendo que ha perdido ya antes de empezar, empieza a pesar de todo y sigue hasta el final, pase lo que pase.

Harper Lee

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Io ne tirai la conclusione che la gente era stramba, e basta.

Harper Lee

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