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Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults,
I think maybe he put his gun down when he realized that God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things.
“People in their right minds never take pride in their talents,”
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
The court appointed Atticus to defend him. Atticus aimed to defend him. That’s what they didn’t like about it. It was confusing.
He was a man learned in the law, and although he seemed to take his job casually, in reality he kept a firm grip on any proceedings that came before him.
The law says ‘reasonable doubt,’ but I think a defendant’s entitled to the shadow of a doubt. There’s always the possibility, no matter how improbable, that he’s innocent.”
I asked him if I was a problem and he said not much of one, at most one that he could always figure out, and not to worry my head a second about botherin’ him.
