Well, I got rid of one. And one like that is worth three ordinary ones.
4 seconds sound clip from the The Cocoanuts (1929) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:22:54.069 in the DVD version of the movie.
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- Oft in the stilly night, the trembling of a leaf can be heard sighing through the trees.
- And the babbling brook, as it wends its way onward, babbling and...
- Well, I got rid of one. And one like that is worth three ordinary ones.
- Where was I? Oh, yes, on this chair. That's right.
- And it was in that little house that Abraham Lincoln was born, much to my father's surprise.
- And that, boys and girls, was the beginning of the Lincoln Highway.
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