You Never Really Understand a Person Until You Consider

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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." "The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." "There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible." "Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do." "When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em." "Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it." Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open." I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew." As a father Atticus is affectionate with his children, Jem and Scout, ready with a hug when they need comfort and available to spend time reading to them. Although he allows his children freedom to play and explore, he is also a firm disciplinarian, always teaching his children to think of how their actions affect others and devising punishments to teach his children valuable lessons.... One of the reasons Atticus is a great father, in my opinion, is the way he treats his children like reasonable human beings. For instance,
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