[오늘의 한문장] To Kill a Mockingbird

Jem, educated on a half-Decimal half-Duncecap basis, seemed to function effectively alone or in a group, but Jem was a poor example: no tutorial system devised by man could have stopped him from getting at books. As for me, I knew nothing except what I gathered from Time magazine and reading everything I could lay hands on at home, but as I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me. - P14

[오늘의 한문장] To Kill a Mockingbird

The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. - P44

˝Hush your mouth! Don’t matte...

"Hush your mouth! Don’t matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house’s yo’ comp’ny, and don’t you let me catch you remarkin’ on their ways like you was so high and mighty! Yo’ folks might be better’n the Cunninghams but it don’t count for nothin’ the way you’re disgracin’ ’em—if you can’t act fit to eat at the table you can just set here and eat in the kitchen!" - P34

"First of all," he said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—" "Sir?" "—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." - P40

Being Southerners, it was a s...

Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings. - P7

Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself. - P9

Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment. - P9

Routine contentment was: improving our treehouse that rested between giant twin chinaberry trees in the back yard, fussing, running through our list of dramas based on the works of Oliver Optic, Victor Appleton, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. - P12

The old house was the same, droopy and sick, but as we stared down the street we thought we saw an inside shutter move. Flick. A tiny, almost invisible movement, and the house was still. - P21

"Jem says I was. He read in a book where I was a Bullfinch instead of a Finch. Jem says my name’s really Jean Louise Bullfinch, that I got swapped when I was born and I’m really a—" - P25

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. - P26

[오늘의 한문장] 진보를 위한 주식투자

주식시장이 포지티브섬이라는 것은 진보적인 가치에 부합합니다. 함께 잘살 수 있다는 것, 누군가의 눈물이 아니라 함께 웃으면서 성장하고 발전할 수 있다는 점, 주식투자가 진보적 가치에 가까울 수 있다는 생각입니다. - <진보를 위한 주식투자>, 이광수 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/ae63748b2cdd4c58 - P32