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Atticus Finch
("To Kill a Mockingbird", Harper Lee)

Quotes:

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Y ou never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

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W hen 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 faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

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T he one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

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…b ut before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

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C ourage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

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T here's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.