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Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.

— 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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