# Quote — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

> And it's certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. I don't know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit. Of course he shouldn't, but he'll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children?

- Author: [Harper Lee](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harper-lee.md)
- Book: [To Kill a Mockingbird](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harper-lee/to-kill-a-mockingbird.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/harper-lee/to-kill-a-mockingbird/and-its-certainly

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> Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

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