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One of them stepped from the crowd. It was Zeebo, the garbage collector. Mister Jem, he said, we’re mighty glad to have you all here. Don’t pay no ’tention to Lula, she’s contentious because Reverend Sykes threatened to church her. She’s a troublemaker from way back, got fancy ideas an’ haughty ways—we’re mighty glad to have you all. With that, Calpurnia led us to the church door where we were greeted by Reverend Sykes, who led us to the front pew. First Purchase was unceiled and unpainted within. Along its walls unlighted kerosense lamps hung on brass brackets; pine benches served as pews. Behind the rough oak pulpit a faded pink silk banner proclaimed God Is Love, the church’s only decoration except a roto-gravure print of Hunt’s The Light of the World.

It’s exciting to hear them talking about poetry and science and philosophy—about Shakespeare and Milton; Newton and Einstein and Freud; about Plato and Hegel and Kant, and all the other names that echo like great church bells in my mind.

I was promoted to be a major, and every Allied government gave me a decoration—even Montenegro, little Montenegro down on the Adriatic Sea!

I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back, you know?

Kad neko umre susedi donose hranu, cveće kad se neko razboli, a između toga malo šta. Bu je bio naš sused. Poklonio nam je dve lutkice od sapuna, pokvareni sat na lancu, dve parice koje donose sreću, i naše živote. Ali susedi vraćaju uzdarjima. Mi u drvo nikada nismo vratili ono što smo izvadili iz njega; mi njemu nismo dali ništa, i ja se rastužih zbog toga.

Sparkling bronze azure eyed Blazure's skyblue bow and eyes.

Shalt thou give law to God, shalt thou disputeWith Him the points of liberty who madeThee what thou art and formed the pow'rs of Heav'nSuch as He pleased and circumscribed their being?

And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler.

Gently the waves would break (Lily heard them in her sleep); tenderly the light fell (it seemed to come through her eyelids). And it all looked, Mr. Carmichael thought, shutting his book, falling asleep, much as it used to look years ago.

My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.

Hrabrost je kad znas da si potucen i prije no sto si krenuo u borbu, ali ti ipak kreces i uprkos svemu stremis cilju. Rijetko kad pobjedjujes ali nekad pobijedis.

When you mature intellectually we may not be able to communicate. When you mature emotionally you may not even want me.

How mingled and imperfect are all our sublunary joys!

...So little knowsAny but God alone to value rightThe good before him but perverts best thingsTo worst abuse or to their meanest use.

That was the way he always was, alien to the existence of his sons, partly because he considered childhood as a period of mental insufficiency, and partly because he was always too absorbed in his fantastic speculations.

Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees—he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.

They love the heathen on the other side of the globe. They can pray for him, pay money to have the Bible put into his hand, and missionaries to instruct him; while they despise and totally neglect the heathen at their own doors. Such is, very briefly, my view of the religion of this land;

Chắc chắn họ có quyền nghĩ vậy và họ có quyền nhận được sự tôn trọng dành cho những ý kiến của họ," Bố Atticus nói,"nhưng trước khi bố sống được với người khác, bố phải sống với chính mình. Có một thứ không tuân theo nguyên tắc đa số, đó là lương tâm của con người.

Solitude gives me a chance to read and think, and now that the memories are coming through again - to rediscover my past, to find out who and what I really am. If anything should go wrong, I'll have at least that.