The Turks pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor! Because I am a river to my people.
10 seconds sound clip from the Lawrence of Arabia movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:37:42 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- It is the servant who takes money.
- I am Auda Abu Tayi. Does Auda serve?
- No!
- No!
- I carry 23 great wounds, all got in battle.
- Seventy-five men have I killed with my own hands, in battle.
- I scatter, I burn my enemies' tents. I take away their flocks and herds.
- The Turks pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor! Because I am a river to my people.
- No.
- And yet now it seems Auda has grown old. And lost his taste for fighting.
- It is well you say it in my tent, thou old tulip.
- Yet this is a tulip that the Turks could not buy.
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