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Intellectual arses wobble the best.

Largely because of its emphasis on gore, the Illustrated Police News had the highest circulation of any publication in Victorian England.

I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.

Where are your pants, son?

She was born in the Objective case.

They're people, aren't they? We were quite willing to import them when they made money for us.

Let's go home, Scout. It's been a long day. Open the door for me.

The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove to harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region.

summer was the swiftness with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when Jem was not looking, the longing we sometimes felt each other feel. With him life was routine; without him life was unbearable.

El amor es lo único de este mundo que es inequívoco. Hay distintas clases de amor, pero todas se sienten o no se sienten».

said once, that the only real duties of government were to prevent crime and preserve contracts, to which I will add one thing since I find myself reluctantly in the twentieth century: and to provide for the common defense.

pero a veces la Biblia en manos de un hombre determinado es peor que una botella de whisky en las de..., oh, de tu padre. Me

Through the weeks he had cultivated an expression of polite and detached interest, which he would present to her in answer to her most blood-curdling inventions.

I think the thing that I most deplore about American writing… is a lack of craftsmanship. It comes right down to this — the lack of absolute love for language, the lack of sitting down and working a good idea into a gem of an idea.

You tell Cecil I'm about as radical as Cotton Tom Heflin.

Mrs. Merriweather played her voice like an organ; every word she said received its full measure:

I will never understand men as long as I live, she said, no longer in love with Henry.

There are no chic people in Texas.

Biography will never fail. Would that we were all equally secure of a higher matter, — our right of freedom of epistolary speech !

The job of the facilitator is not to keep things on time, but rather to enable the creation of safe time.

It's worse than I'd thought. I'm not just in a horror movie, I'm a dwarf in a horror movie.

A pushed-back cap had the crossed slide-rule symbol of ship's computer man.

This is the start of a new era, equal rights for men and women." She smiled at him and slid into her chair without another word. Damn, he thought, for another look like that I'd give her the whole thing.