IT in Classic Quotes

1  They said it ran in her family.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
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2  "Do better if you go over it instead of under it," I said.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
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3  Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
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4  She gave the money to Dill, who went to the picture show twenty times on it.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
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5  I said if he wanted to take a broad view of the thing, it really began with Andrew Jackson.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
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6  He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
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7  They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
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8  I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
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9  When it healed, and Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
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10  But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
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11  Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
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12  There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
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13  But by the end of August our repertoire was vapid from countless reproductions, and it was then that Dill gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
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14  Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer's day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
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15  The place was self-sufficient: modest in comparison with the empires around it, the Landing nevertheless produced everything required to sustain life except ice, wheat flour, and articles of clothing, supplied by river-boats from Mobile.

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16  The Haverfords had dispatched Maycomb's leading blacksmith in a misunderstanding arising from the alleged wrongful detention of a mare, were imprudent enough to do it in the presence of three witnesses, and insisted that the-son-of-a-bitch-had-it-coming-to-him was a good enough defense for anybody.

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17  Simon would have regarded with impotent fury the disturbance between the North and the South, as it left his descendants stripped of everything but their land, yet the tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until well into the twentieth century, when my father, Atticus Finch, went to Montgomery to read law, and his younger brother went to Boston to study medicine.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1