Because you'll never be a first-class human being or a first-class woman until you've learned to have some regard for human frailty.

— C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant)

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8 seconds sound clip from the The Philadelphia Story movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:47:21 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- That's the gist of it.

- Because you'll never be a first-class human being or a first-class woman until you've learned to have some regard for human frailty.

- It's a pity your own foot can't slip a little sometime. But your sense of inner divinity wouldn't allow that.

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- That would be most objectionable.

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The Philadelphia Story (1940) Sound Clip

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Actors: James Stewart (Macaulay Connor), Cary Grant (C.K. Dexter Haven), Katharine Hepburn (Tracy Lord), Ruth Hussey (Elizabeth Imbrie), Virginia Weidler (Dinah Lord), Roland Young (Uncle Willie)

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