7 seconds sound clip from the The Shop Around the Corner (1940) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:34:08.377 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Well, anyway, he has a fine mind. Didn't he impress you as being rather witty?
- Well, he struck me as rather depressed, but of course, it's unfair to judge a man when he's out of a job.
- Out of a job! He never told me!
- Why, that shows you how sensitive he is. You have nothing to worry about. No, he feels that both of you can live very nicely on your salary.
- Did you tell him how much I make?
- Well, he's your fiance, and he asked me. I... When I told him what salary you made he was a little worried, but then I promised him that you were gonna get a raise and he felt much better about it.
- And let me tell you, mentioning that bonus didn't do you any harm at all.
- Oh, this is terrible. Why, I'm outraged! I had no idea he was materialistic like this.
- Why, if you could read his letters. Such ideals, such a lofty point of view. I could quote you passages.
- For instance?
- Well, True love is to be two, and yet one.-A man and a woman blended as angels. Heaven itself. That's Victor Hugo. He stole that.
- Oh. And I thought I was the inspiration for all those beautiful thoughts. Now I find he was just copying words out of a book. He probably didn't mean a single one of them.
- Well, I'm sorry you feel this way about it. I'd hate to think I'm spoiling your Christmas.
- I'd built up such an illusion about him. I thought he was so perfect.
- I had to come along and destroy it, huh?
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