# Quote — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

> "I think I'll be a clown when I get grown," said Dill. "Yes, sir, a clown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off."
>
> "You got it backwards, Dill," said Jem. "Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them."
>
> "Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks."

- 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)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harper_Lee#To_Kill_a_Mockingbird_(1962)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/harper-lee/to-kill-a-mockingbird/i-think-ill

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> I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

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> You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view — until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

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> Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

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