- Well, I've worked in worse places, philosophically speaking.
- Really?
- Yes.

7 seconds sound clip from the Monty Python's The Meaning of Life movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:25:08.446 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- Oh, sir. It's only wafer-thin.

- Look, I couldn't eat another thing. I'm absolutely stuffed. Bugger off.

- Oh, sir, just, just one.

- All right, just one.

- Just the one, monsieur. Voilà. Bon appetit.

- The Meaning of Life, part 6B. The meaning of life.

- You know, I sometimes wonder if we'll ever discover the meaning of it all, working in a place like this.

- Well, I've worked in worse places, philosophically speaking.

- Really?

- Yes.

- I used to work in the Academie Française, but it didn't do me any good at all.

- I once worked in the library in the Prado in Madrid, but it didn't teach me nothin', I recall.

- And the Library of Congress you'd have thought would hold some key, but it didn't, and neither did the Bodleian Library.

- In the British Museum, I hoped to find some clue. I worked there from 9:00 till 6:00, read every volume through, but it didn't teach me nothing about life's mystery.

[...]

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