Or do you know, in the Arab city of Cordoba were two miles of public lighting in the streets when London was a village.
10 seconds sound clip from the Lawrence of Arabia movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:50:57 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- The English have a great hunger for desolate places. I fear they hunger for Arabia.
- Then you must deny it to them.
- You are an Englishman. Are you not loyal to England?
- To England and to other things.
- To England and Arabia both? And is that possible?
- I think you are another of these desert-loving English. Doughty, Stanhope, Gordon of Khartoum.
- Time to be great again, my lord.
- Which is why my father made this war upon the Turks. My father, not the English.
- But my father is old... and I... I long for the vanished gardens of Cordoba.
- However, before the gardens must come the fighting.
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