More from To Kill a Mockingbird
- Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.
- 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...you rarely win, but sometimes you do.
- Accept loss forever
- A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
- A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. Essays, "Character," 1844
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