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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness_ sake. But don__ make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasionquicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles __m. 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__e notattracting attention with it. Hotheadedness isn__.
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness_ sake. But don__ make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasionquicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles __m. 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__e notattracting attention with it. Hotheadedness isn__.
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