I’m proud of my son, who leads the First Purchase congregation with linin’.

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I am the person whose questioning of Tom Robinson makes Dill physically ill.

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As his employer, I feel compelled to speak in defense of Tom, a good man.

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I try to spruce up my home with red geraniums.

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I beat my addiction and die on my own terms.

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My wife died when my kids were just two and six years old.

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Jack Finch flirts with me, but I’d never marry him.

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My real name is Jean Louise, but no one calls me that.

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My real first name is Charles, but no one calls me that.

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My real first name is Jeremy, but no one calls me that.

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My grandson Francis is a much better child than Scout.

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I need to gain weight so I can play football for the high school team.

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I seem to always find redbugs on my legs that need scratching.

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I’m not the straightest shot, so I give my gun to Atticus.

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A legal entanglement keeps me from being able to sell my land.

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My nephew thinks I drink more than I should.

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I carve excellent dolls out of bars of soap.

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When foot-washin’ Baptists criticize me, I just recite Bible verses right back at them.

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Since Atticus refuses to do it, I’m the one to teach Jem and Scout how to shoot their rifles.

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I cement over the knot hole in the tree in front of my house.

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I speak exactly five words in the entire novel.

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As a kid, my nickname was Ol’ One-Shot.

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Miss Maudie stays with me while her new house is being built.

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Instead of smoking cigars, I prefer to munch them.

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I said, "Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. "

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I said, "Scout, it’s nothing but Coca-Cola."

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I said, "When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em."

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I said, "How could they do it, how could they?"

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I said, "So you brought that dirty little sister of yours, did you?"

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I said: "I’ll say this: Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets."

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I said: "Mr. Finch? They gone?"

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I said: "I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks."

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I said: "Whatcha going to be when you grow up, Jean Louise? A laywer?"

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I said: "I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown...Yes, sir, a clown (a)   There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off."

I said: "I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl it’s mortifyin'."

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I said, "Yes, suh. I felt right sorry for her, she seemed to try more’n the rest of ‘em–"

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I said: "With his infinite capacity for calming turbulent seas, he could make a rape case as dry as a sermon."

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I said: "So it took an eight-year-old child to bring ‘em to their senses..."

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I said: "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."

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I said: "You may commence reading, Jeremy."

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I said: "The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience."

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I said: "I found some funny-looking pieces of muddy-colored cloth–"

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I said: "Will you take me home?"

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I said: "Let the dead bury the dead."

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