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  1. Harper Lee _ Go Set a Watchman

    She went to him. "Atticus," she said. "I'm-" "You may be sorry, but I'm proud of you." She looked up and saw her father beaming at her. "What?" "I said I'm proud of you." "I don't understand you. I don't understand men at all and I never will." "Well, I certainly hoped a daughter of mine'd hold her ground for what she thinks is right-stand up to me first of all.
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  2. Harper Lee _ Go Set a Watchman

    Good grief, baby, people don't agree with the Klan, but they certainly don't try to prevent them from puttin' on sheets and making fools of themselves in public.
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  3. Harper Lee _ Go Set a Watchman

    She wondered why she had never thought her country beautiful.
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  4. Harper Lee _ Go Set a Watchman

    But a man who has lived by truth-and you have believed in what he has lived-he does not leave you merely wary when he fails you, he leaves you with nothing.
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  5. Harper Lee _ Go Set a Watchman

    text for today is taken from the twenty-first chapter of Isaiah, verse six: For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
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  6. Harper Lee _ Go Set a Watchman

    She was a person who, when confronted with an easy way out, always took the hard way. The easy way out of this would be to marry Hank and let him labor for her. After a few years, when the children were waist-high, the man would come along whom she should have married in the first place. There would be searchings of hearts, fevers and frets, long looks at each other on the post office steps, and misery for everybody. The hollering and the high-mindedness over, all that would be left would be another shabby little affair à la the Birmingham country club set, and a self-constructed private Gehenna with the latest Westinghouse appliances. Hank didn't deserve that.
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  7. Harper Lee _ Go Set a Watchman

    I can't beat you, I can't join you.
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  8. Harper Lee _ Go Set a Watchman

    We wondered, sometimes, when your conscience and his would part company, and over what." Dr. Finch smiled. "Well, we know now. I'm just thankful I was around when the ructions started. Atticus couldn't talk to you the way I'm talking-" "Why not, sir?" "You wouldn't have listened to him. You couldn't have listened. Our gods are remote from us, Jean Louise. They must never descend to human level.
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  9. Harper Lee _ Go Set a Watchman

    Go away, the old buildings said. There is no place for you here. You are not wanted. We have secrets.
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  10. Harper Lee _ Go Set a Watchman

    What does a bigot do when he meets someone who challenges his opinions? He doesn't give. He stays rigid. Doesn't even try to listen, just lashes out.
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  11. Harper Lee _ Go Set a Watchman

    You are fascinated with yourself. You will say anything that occurs to you, but what I can't understand are the things that do occur to you. I should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, and watch it go its way through the runnels of your brain until it comes out of your mouth.
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  12. Harper Lee _ Go Set a Watchman

    I guess it's like an airplane: they're the drag and we're the thrust, together we make the thing fly. Too much of us and we're nose-heavy, too much of them and we're tail-heavy-it's a matter of balance.
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