“I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?'

I said not particularly.”

—  Harper Lee , book To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

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