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| "Scout," said Atticus, "****-lover is just one of those terms that don't mean anything- like snot-nose. It's hard to explain--ignorant, trashy people use it when they think somebody...." |
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| "Atticus, you must be wrong..." "How's that?" "Well, most folks seem to think they're right and you're wrong..." "They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect..." |
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| Atticus promised me he would wear me out if he ever heard of me fighting anymore; I was far too old and too bid for such childish things, and the sooner I learned to hold in, the better..." |
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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 the table..." |
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| "But Dill got him the third day, when he told Jem that folks in Meridian certainly weren't as afraid as the folks in Maycomb, that he'd never seen such scary folks as the ones in Maycomb..." |
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| "I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some..." |
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| "If Uncle Atticus lets you run around with stray dogs, that's his own business, like Grandma says, so it ain't your fault. I guess it ain't your fault if Atticus is a ****-lover besides..." |
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| Compassion and Forgiveness |
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| "First of all," he said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view..." |
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