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Oh, how do we know what it will do to him? At his impressionable age, there's no telling.

4 seconds sound clip from the The Future Is Yours (Family Theater) classic radio drama series episode.

You can hear this line at 00:13:34.907 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- The way I look at it is this. It's all a question of values, moral values.

- Yes.

- Now, look, when you weigh in all the good that can come out of this, Alan's future and...

- And my stage career.

- And the new grip on life it'll give us.

- Why, I'd say it was the better part of discretion to permit Alan to...

- To what?

- Tell a lie?

- Oh, there you go, Grace. I don't know where you get these old-fashioned notions.

- There's a big difference between a liar and an opportunist. It's not going to mark the boy. It's not going to make a confirmed liar out of him.

- Oh, how do we know what it will do to him? At his impressionable age, there's no telling.

- Grace, will you try to keep a sense of proportion?

- I see Dad's point very clearly.

- Besides, Mother, how do we know what hard times are ahead of us? Maybe we'll do for another depression.

- Just think what it would mean to have that money back.

- Yes, Grace.

- And when Alan grows up and we can't give him a higher education, how do you think he's going to feel toward you when he knows that you let his big chance slip through your fingers?

[...]

The Future Is Yours (1948) Sound Clip

The Future Is Yours (1948) coverListen to quotes from the 1948 Family Theater radioplay The Future Is Yours, written by Walter Spence.

Actors: Bobby Driscoll (Alan), Rosemary DeCamp (Loretta), Ruth Perrott (Grace), Willard Waterman, Paul Conrad, Bob Holton

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