- Daddy, that's cheating.
- Of course it's cheating. Nobody ever got rich being honest.

— Harry Wormwood (Danny Devito), Matilda Wormwood (Mara Wilson)

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4 seconds sound clip from the Matilda (1996) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:15:27.326 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- See this junker? I paid $100 for it. She's got 120000 miles on her. Transmission shot, bumpers have fallen off. What do I do with her, huh? I sell her.

- We really should weld these bumpers on, but that takes time, equipment, money. So we use Super Super Glue instead.

- Go ahead, put it on there.

- Won't it fall off?

- Definitely.

- Isn't that dangerous?

- Not to me, okay?

- Transmission.

- The sawdust quiets the gears, and lets the engine run as sweet as a nut - for a couple of miles.

- Daddy, that's cheating.

- Of course it's cheating. Nobody ever got rich being honest.

- 20 years ago, we could turn the numbers back by hand. But... Here, take my hat.

- But the feds like to test the ingenuity of the American businessman.

- Two-directional drill. You run it backwards, the numbers go down. Watch the speedometer...

- Cool.

- See?

- Yeah.

- Daddy, you're a crook.

- What?

- This is illegal.

[...]

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