Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.
("To Kill a Mockingbird")
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Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
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You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.
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