"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 evasionquicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles —em. No, you had the right answer this afternoon, but the wrong reasons. Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're notattracting attention with it. Hotheadedness isn't."

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About Harper Lee

Harper Lee was an American novelist best known for To Kill a Mockingbird, a landmark novel about racial injustice in the U.S. South. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961 and became a modern classic. She later published Go Set a Watchman, an earlier draft-related work.

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