Since, in a great many ways, we are a backward people, but don't quote me.
4 seconds sound clip from the The Wolf Man (1941) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:04:36.892 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- See, the tradition also insists that the Talbots be the stiff-necked, undemonstrative type.
- Frequently, this has been carried to very unhappy extremes.
- Let's decide, you and I, that between us there shall be no more such reserve.
- I'll do everything that I can, sir.
- Well, that should be considerable.
- Since, in a great many ways, we are a backward people, but don't quote me.
- It's from London, sir. I think it's the new part for the telescope.
- Of course. Come along, lad. Come on. Up to the attic. It's an observatory now.
- There you are, sir. I think that has it.
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