- Say to yourself, while I'm young, I will write the simple, beautiful things I know and understand. Will you do that, Josephine?
- I'll try.
— Professor Bhaer (Robert Boone)
12 seconds sound clip from the Little Women (1950) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:47:47 in the radio play.
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- And I chose this moment to criticize your writing.
- Yes. Yes, that is what I thought.
- And I said to myself, maybe I have no right to speak to her, for she does have talent.
- Great talent, little friend.
- And I say to you, sweep first the mud in the street before you are false to that talent.
- Say to yourself, I will never write a single line which I have not first felt in my own heart!
- Thank you. Only, I'm going back to Concord. I'm going home. It's where I belong.
- Then I... I will not see you again?
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