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"If you chase a butterfly, it will escape; if you feed it, it will come."
"You're frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds."
"Patience is real self-mastery."
"If kindness is beauty, patience is disarming elegance."
"Until the stone becomes soft, it cannot attach itself to the wall."
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"I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement."
"How could this be so, I wondered, as I read Mr. Underwood's editorial. Senseless killing--Tom had been given due process of law to the day of his death; he had been tried openly and convicted by twelve good men and true; my father had fought for him all the way. Then Mr. Underwood's meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed."
"As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal."
"We're so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we've got men like Atticus to go for us."
"I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with."
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