If we make a find, we'll be lighting our cigars with $100 bills. If we don't, the difference between what you put up and what I put up ain't enough to keep me from being right back where I was this afternoon: polishing a bench with the seat of my pants.

— Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart)

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11 seconds sound clip from the The Treasure of the Sierra Madre movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:21:18.188 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- Well, would you like to shake the hand that bought that ticket? Congratulations.

- Congratulations yourself. You stand to profit out of this the same as I do.

- How do you make that out?

- Well, didn't he just say we needed 600 bucks? Well, that's what we got now, ain't it?

- How come you're putting up for me?

- This is an all-or-nothing proposition, ain't it?

- If we make a find, we'll be lighting our cigars with $100 bills. If we don't, the difference between what you put up and what I put up ain't enough to keep me from being right back where I was this afternoon: polishing a bench with the seat of my pants.

- Put her there, pard.

(Steam train whistle blowing)

- We'll buy our burros here at Perlin, then head northwest away from the railroad.

- No use looking anywhere nearby a railroad or any kind of road at all, for that matter, because construction engineers make it their business to examine every bit of ground around the road while they build them.

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