My Lord, Aunt Stephanie, you almost gave me a heart attack!
("To Kill a Mockingbird")
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Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.Harper Lee
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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You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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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.
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