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“Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were…” quote by Harper Lee — Download Open image

“Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was.”

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