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How do you plan to do that?
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Father.
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"God more regards the thoughts
of the heart than the words of the mouth."
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-Well, so you've always told me.
-Yes.
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Then say the words of the oath
and in your heart think otherwise.
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What is an oath then,
but words we say to God?
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Listen, Meg.
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When a man takes an oath, he's holding
his own self in his own hands...
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...Iike water.
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And if he opens his fingers then,
he needn't hope to find himself again.
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Some men aren't capable of this, but I'd be
loathed to think your father one of them.
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-I have another argument.
-Oh, Meg.
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In any state that was half good,
you would be raised up high, not here...
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-...for what you've done already.
-All right.
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It's not your fault
the state's three-quarters bad.
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No.
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If you elect to suffer for it,
you elect to be a hero.
1:34:08
That's very neat.
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But look now. If we lived in a state
where virtue was profitable...
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...common sense would make us saintly.
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But since we see that avarice, anger,
pride and stupidity...
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...commonly profit far beyond charity,
modesty, justice and thought...
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...perhaps we must stand fast a little...
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...even at the risk of being heroes.
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But in reason!
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Haven't you done as much
as God can reasonably want?
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Well, finally it isn't a matter of reason.
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Finally, it's a matter of love.
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You're content then to be shut up here
with mice and rats...
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-...when you might be home with us?
-Content?
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If they'd open a crack that wide, I'd be
through it like a bird and back to Chelsea.