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That's very wise of you, Margaret.

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

You can hear this line at 00:53:50 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- You've got a heck of a nerve to come back here in your best head-of-the-family manner, and make stands and strike attitudes and criticize my fiancé, and give orders and mess things up generally.

- Stop it instantly!

- I can't help it. It's sickening.

- As if he'd done nothing at all.

- Which happens to be the truth.

- Anyway, it's not your affair, Tracy. If it concerns anyone...

- Well, actually, I don't know whom it concerns except your father.

- That's very wise of you, Margaret.

- What most wives fail to realize is that their husbands' philandering has nothing whatever to do with them.

- Oh? Then what has it to do with?

- A reluctance to grow old, I think.

- I suppose the best mainstay a man can have as he gets along in years is a daughter. The right kind of daughter.

- How sweet. (2)

- Oh, no, no. I'm talking seriously about something I've thought over thoroughly. I've had to.

[...]

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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