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“The only thing I’m afraid of about this country is that its government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn’t be worth living in. The only thing in America that is still unique in this tired world is that a man can go as far as his brains will take him or he can go to hell if he wants to, but it won’t be that way much longer.”

"Mr. Stone set a watchman in church yesterday. He should have provided me with one. I need a watchman to lead me around and declare what he seeth every hour on the hour. I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the difference."

Alexandra was at the kitchen table absorbed in culinary rites. Jean Louise tiptoed past her to no avail. “Come look here.”

Lee, Harper. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel (p. 19). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

“You know, if you get in trouble at school or anything—you just let me know. I’ll take care of you.” Jem sauntered from the livingroom, leaving Jean Louise wide-eyed and wondering if she were fully awake.

Lee, Harper. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel (p. 19). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

“Home for nineteen hours and you’ve already indulged your predilection for ablutionary excesses, hah! A classic example of Watsonian Behaviorism—think I’ll write you up and send you to the AMA Journal.”

Lee, Harper. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel (p. 18). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

“Cal,” she whispered, “is Atticus real upset?” Calpurnia straightened up, looked down at her, and said to the table at large, “Mr. Finch? Nawm, Miss Scout. He on the back porch laughin’!”

Lee, Harper. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel (p. 18). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

“What was that for?” said Henry delightedly.

“General Principles, who fought in the Peninsular War. Let’s get going.”

Lee, Harper. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel (p. 18). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

“I want to be like Dr. Schweitzer and play until I’m thirty.”

“He played all right,” said Henry grimly.

Lee, Harper. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel (p. 12). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.