Mr McPhail's English Blog: To Kill a Mockingbird

"So we beat on, boats against the current, bourne back ceaselessly into the past."

"It takes two to make an accident."

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

“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.”

“We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.”

"We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."

"Great minds talk about ideas. Average minds talk about events. Small minds talk about people."

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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