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81 " It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. "
― Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird
82 " I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew. "
83 " She was the bravest person I ever knew. "
84 " Our mother died when I was two, so I never felt her absence. She was a Graham from Montgomery; Atticus met her when he was first elected to the state legislature. He was middle-aged then, she was fifteen years his junior. Jem was the product of their first year of marriage; four years later I was born, and two years later our mother died from a sudden heart attack. They said it ran in her family. I did not miss her, but I think Jem did. He remembered her clearly, and sometimes in the middle of a game he would sigh at length, then go off and play by himself behind the car-house. When he was like that, I knew better than to bother him. "
85 " We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe. Some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cupcakes than others; some are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men. "
86 " Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about? "
87 " If he’s not he should be by now. The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets— "
88 " In their own way, Tom Robinson's manners were as good as Atticus's "
― Harper Lee
89 " 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. "
90 " Let the dead bury the dead... "
91 " Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts. "
92 " It was a place where, if troubles did not vanish, they were made bearable. "
― Harper Lee , Go Set a Watchman
93 " I do wish this time you'd try to dress better while you're home. Folks in town get the wrong impression of you. They think you are--ah--slumming. "
94 " The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be heany colour of the rainbow, but people have way to carrying their resentments right into a jury box. "
95 " The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. "
96 " The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way to carrying their resentments right into a jury box. "
97 " I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you. "
98 " It's not time to worry yet "
99 " It ain't time to worry yet. I'll let you know when. "
100 " I wanted you see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. "