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Quotes from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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1 The older you grow the more of it you'll see.
2 Let him get a little older and he won't get sick and cry.
3 Jem's getting older and she follows his example a good bit now.
4 Well, I hoped Jem would understand folks a little better when he was older; I wouldn't.
5 As we grew older, Jem and I thought it generous to allow Atticus thirty minutes to himself after supper.
6 He might have hurt me a little," Atticus conceded, "but son, you'll understand folks a little better when you're older.
7 He was a year older than I, and I avoided him on principle: he enjoyed everything I disapproved of, and disliked my ingenuous diversions.
8 She was always ordering me out of the kitchen, asking me why I couldn't behave as well as Jem when she knew he was older, and calling me home when I wasn't ready to come.
9 The second grade was grim, but Jem assured me that the older I got the better school would be, that he started off the same way, and it was not until one reached the sixth grade that one learned anything of value.
10 She chanted mournfully about Maycomb County being older than the state, that it was a part of the Mississippi and Alabama Territories, that the first white man to set foot in the virgin forests was the Probate Judge's great-grandfather five times removed, who was never heard of again.
11 There was indeed a caste system in Maycomb, but to my mind it worked this way: the older citizens, the present generation of people who had lived side by side for years and years, were utterly predictable to one another: they took for granted attitudes, character shadings, even gestures, as having been repeated in each generation and refined by time.