10 seconds sound clip from the The Treasure of the Sierra Madre movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:12:40.638 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Gold's a devilish sort of a thing, anyway. You start out, you tell yourself you'll be satisfied with 25000 handsome smackers worth of it. So help my lord and cross my heart.
- Fine resolution.
- After months of sweating yourself dizzy and growing short on provisions and finding nothing, you finally come down to 15000, then 10. Finally, you say, lord, let me just find $5000 worth and I'll never ask for anything more the rest of my life.
- $5000 is a lot of money.
- Yeah, here in this joint it seems like a lot, but, I tell you, if you was to make a real strike, you couldn't be dragged away.
- Not even the threat of miserable death would keep you from trying to add 10000 more. 10, you'd want to get 25.25, you'd want to get 50.50, 100. Like roulette, one more turn... You know, always one more.
- It wouldn't be that way with me. I swear it wouldn't. I'd take only what I set out to get, even if there was still a half a million dollars worth lying around waiting to be picked up.
- I've dug in Alaska and Canada and Colorado. I was with the crowd in the British Honduras before I'd made my fare back home and almost enough over to cure me of the fever I'd caught. Dug in California and Australia, all over the world, practically.
- I know what gold does to men's souls.
- You talk as though you struck it rich sometime or other, pop. How about it? Then what are you doing in here, a down-and-outer?
- That's the gold. That's what it makes of us. Never knew a prospector yet that died rich. Make one fortune, you're sure to blow it in trying to find another. I'm no exception to the rule.
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