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The people who have nothing to lock up are the happy ones, aren't they?

She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad.

Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.

That's what I thought, too,' he said at last, 'when I was your age. If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time . . . it's because he wants to stay inside.

So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep. But they are creul tears. This sorrow's heavenly; it strikes where it doth love.

Put money in thy purse.

I never yet did hear, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear

The best thing she was, was her children.

Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.

HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge...

It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.

But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it.

So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.

Mom and Dad liked to make a big point about never surrendering to fear or to prejudice or to the narrow-minded conformist sticks-in-the-mud who tried to tell everyone else what was proper.

There was old sex in the room and loneliness, and expectation, of something without a shape or name. I remember that yearning, and was never the same as the hands that were on us there and then, in the small of the back, or out back, in the parking lot, or in the television room with the sound turned down and only the pictures flickering over lifting flesh. We yearned for the future How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

In front of us, to the right, is the store where we order dresses. Some people call them habits, a good word for them. Habits are hard to break.

let us sleep," he said and he felt the long light body, warm against him, comforting against him, abolishing loneliness against him, magically, by a simple touching of flanks, of shoulders and of feet, making an alliance against death with him.

History ... is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake.

He felt himself, and did not want to be anyone else. All he wanted now was to be better than before.