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And it's certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. I don't know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit. Of course he shouldn't, but he'll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children?

— Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

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