3 seconds sound clip from the A Chump at Oxford (1939) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:17:22 in the DVD version of the movie.
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(Alarm clock bell ringing)
- Well, here we are at last. Right down in the gutter.
- I wonder what's the matter with us. We're just as good as other people, yet we don't seem to advance ourselves.
- You know what the trouble is, don't you? We never had no education, that's what's the matter. We're not illiterate enough.
- I guess you're right.
- Sure I'm right.
- If we went to school like other people, we would learn our three Rs, and today there'd be no job too small for us, believe me.
- What do you mean, three Rs?
- Well, reading, writing and... and... figuring.
- Figuring?
- Sure. You know - two and two make something and four and four make something. It's different to the first...
- You mean 'rithmetic.
- Yeah, I knew what it meant but I couldn't say it.
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