People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
("To Kill a Mockingbird")
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Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.Harper Lee
Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained - if you ate animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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People don't like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them.
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