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And today is October the 3rd. What a good time to choose for parting with one's practice.

5 seconds sound clip from the Dr Knock (Theatre Royal 1954) classic radio drama series episode.

You can hear this line at 00:04:02.856 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Apoplexies, bad hearts, oh yes, people who are certain there's nothing the matter with them just fall down dead when they're fifty.

- But you've not made your fortune by writing death certificates.

- Ha, ha, ha, no, of course not.

- Well, there's always influenza. Not the common influenza, of course, but they rather like a touch of that now and again. They think a good septic cold once a year keeps them from catching all sorts of other things.

- No, I mean the big, worldwide epidemics.

- But if I have to wait for a worldwide epidemic...

- I've seen two. One in 1889 and the last one in 1918.

- You did fairly well out of them?

- Oh yes...

- Michaelmas 1919. And the books look very well indeed.

- Michaelmas 1919?

- Yes, you see the people here only pay their bills every Michaelmas, every 29th of September.

- And today is October the 3rd. What a good time to choose for parting with one's practice.

- But if they come to your dispensary, of course, they pay on the nail.

- No, at Michaelmas, that's the custom.

- But if they only come once, you're never going to see them again.

- They pay at Michaelmas.

- Most of them, of course, only do come once.

- Really? Well, what about the regular patients?

- Regular patients?

- Well, the ones that you see two or three times a week, or well, at least two or three times a month.

- My dear, do you hear that? Patients who come calling like the butcher and the baker.

[...]

Dr Knock (1954) Sound Clip

Dr KnockEnjoy Robert Morley's performance in the 1954 Theatre Royal radio play of Jules Romain's 'Dr Knock', and explore standout quotes on our website.

Actors: Robert Morley (Dr Knock), Sir Ralph Richardson (Host)

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