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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents, said

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

(When Alabama seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, Winston County seceded from Alabama, and every child in Maycomb County knew it.) North Alabama was full of Liquor Interests, Big Mules, steel companies, Republicans, professors, and other persons of no background.

-Uno es valiente cuando, sabiendo que ha perdido ya antes de empezar, empieza a pesar de todo y sigue hasta el final pase lo que pase.

but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself

Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change: Jem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the aberrations of nature, thereby causing unhappiness to our neighbours and discomfort to ourselves.

When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A strange small spasm shook him, as if he heard fingernails scrape slate, but as I gazed at him in wonder the tension slowly drained from his face. His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor’s image blurred with my sudden tears. Hey, Boo, I said.

Seventeen bullet holes in him.

Aver coraggio significa sapere di essere sconfitti prima ancora di cominciare, e cominciare ugualmente e arrivare fino in fondo, qualsiasi cosa succeda. È raro vincere, ma qualche volta succede.

They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it – seems that only children weep.

you saw something come between them and reason. You saw the same thing that night in front of the jail. When that crew went away, they didn’t go as reasonable men, they went because we were there. There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn’t be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins.

Neighbours bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbour. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good luck pennies, and our lives.

First thing you learn when you’re in a lawin’ family is that there ain’t any definite answers to anything.

uno debe mentir en ciertas circunstancias, en particular cuando no puede modificar las circunstancias. —Hemos

He looked all Negro to me: he was rich chocolate with flaring nostrils and beautiful teeth. Sometimes he would skip happily , and the Negro woman tugged his hand to make him stop.

under the live oaks on the square. Attentive critics of courthouse business, Atticus said

Mr. Tate. He’s good and dead. He won’t hurt these children again.

Єдине, що не підлягає закону більшості, - це власна совість.

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 for their opinions, said Atticus, but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Nu ştiu cum, dar au făcut-o. Au făcut-o şi înainte, au făcut-o astă-searăşi au s-o mai facă, şi când fac una ca asta...se pare că numai copiii plâng.

anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection

Mr. Avery sat on the porch every

Exista un soi de oameni care ... se gindesc atit de mult la lumea cealalta, incit n-ajung niciodata sa invete cum sa traiasca in lumea asta.

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.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.‘Atticus, he was real nice’. ‘Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.

circumstances

Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft tea-cakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.

children get to bed now.

Nu ştiu cum, dar au făcut-o. Au făcut-o şi înainte, au făcut-o astă-seară şi au s-o mai facă, şi când fac una ca asta...se pare că numai copiii plâng.

But in the absence of eye-witness there's always a doubt, sometimes only the shadow of a doubt. The law says 'reasonable doubt', but I think a defendant's entitled to the shadow of doubt. There's always the possibility, no matter how improbable, that he's innocent.

education than most coloured folks. When she squinted

The Gray Ghost, by Seckatary Hawkins.

I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it—seems that only children weep. Good night.

An old campaigner, he did not speak until we were on the sidewalk. What’s up? Jem’s got the look-arounds, an affliction Calpurnia said all boys caught at his age.

it’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you. So

I think maybe he put his gun down when he realized that God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things.

After all, if Aunty could be a lady at a time like this, so could I.

her victim—of necessity she must put him away from her—he must be removed from her presence, from this world. She must destroy the evidence of her offense. What was

cheatin' a colored man is ten times worse than cheatin' a white man

pero a veces la Biblia en manos de un hombre determinado es peor que una botella de whisky en las de..., oh, de tu padre. Me

It’s not necessary to tell all you know. It’s not ladylike—in the second place, folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ’em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’ right, they’ve got to want to learn themselves, and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.

Besides making change in the collection plate every Sunday, Mr. Avery sat on the porch every night until nine o’clock and sneezed.

Matches were dangerous, but cards were fatal. Jem,

Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.

Hey.

she won’t

There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

Почти все люди хорошие, когда их в конце концов поймешь.