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"A long extension cord ran between the bars of a second-floor window and down the side of the building. In the light from its bare bulb, Atticus was sitting propped against the front door. He was sitting in one of his office chairs, and he was reading, oblivious of the nightbugs dancing over his head."

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"There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus’s vest front. I buried my head in it and listened to the small internal noises that went on behind the light blue cloth: his watch ticking, the faint crackle of his starched shirt, the soft sound of his breathing."

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"Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment."

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“Our father had a few peculiarities: one was, he never ate desserts; another was he liked to walk… in Maycomb he walked to and from his office four times a day, covering about two miles. He said his only exercise walk walking.”

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"'Do you really think so?" This was Atticus's dangerous question."

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“Link, that boy might go to the chair, but he’s not going till the truth’s told. And you know what the truth is.”

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"I do my best to love everybody... I'm hard put sometimes- baby, it's never an insult to be called what someone thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you."

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“Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.”

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"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."

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"If your father's anything, he's civilized in his heart... I think maybe... he realized that God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things. I guess he decided he wouldn't shoot till he had to, and he had to today."

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...didn't you know his nickname was Ol' One-Shot Finch when he was a boy? ...if he shot fifteen times and hit fourteen doves he'd complain about wasting ammunition."

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"Well, he can make somebody's will so airtight can't anybody meddle with it."

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"Atticus was feeble: He was nearly fifty... He never went hunting, he did not play poker or fish or drink or smoke. He sat in the livingroom and read."

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"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em."

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“But the only time I ever heard Atticus speak sharply to anyone was when I once heard him say, 'Sister, I do the best I can with them!'”

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"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason not to try to win."

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"...every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally. This one's mine..."

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"...if I didn't I couldn't hold my head in town... I couldn't even tell you or Jem not to do something again."

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"Do you defend niggers, Atticus?" [Scout] asked him that evening.

"Of course I do. Don't say nigger, Scout. That's common."

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"As Atticus had once advised me to do, I tried to climb into Jem’s skin and walk around in it...”

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“Atticus Finch is the same in the house as he is in the public streets.”

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“Atticus says God’s loving folks like you love yourself-”