Be a tobacco jar again.

4 seconds sound clip from the The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1954) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:21:27 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

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- It's something odd about my will, I suppose. But that's as far as I can see.

- Is that the only thing? Or can you do other things as well?

- Oh, Lord, yes. Just anything.

- Here, violets, change into a bowl of fish... No, not that sort of fish. Change into a glass bowl full of water with goldfish swimming in it.

- It's astonishing. It's incredible. Your eyes are the most extraordinary... No.

- I could change it into anything, just anything. Here, be a pigeon, will you? You see? Anything. A bowl of flowers, if I wanted. But your pipe's empty.

- Be a tobacco jar again.

- While Mr. Maydig gingerly picked up the jar and refilled his pipe, George Fotheringay told him the whole story, beginning with the affair of the lamp in the Long Dragon

- And complicated by persistent allusions to the missing police constable, Winch.

- As he went on, the transient pride Mr. Maydig's consternation had caused passed away.

- He became a simple man in search of advice.

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