Godfrey<\/b>: The only difference between a derelict and a man is a job.<\/p>\n
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Alexander<\/b>: All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people.<\/p>\n
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Irene<\/b>: You have a wonderful sense of humor. I wish I had a sense of humor, but I can never think of the right thing to say until everybody’s gone home.<\/p>\n
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\nGodfrey<\/b>: Prosperity is just around the corner.
\nMike: Yeah, it’s been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.\n
\nCornelia<\/strong>: You can’t go on like this forever. You really like me, and you’re afraid to admit it, aren’t you?
\nGodfrey<\/b>: You want me to tell you what I really think of you?
\nCornelia: Please do.
\nGodfrey<\/b>: As Smith or as a butler?
\nCornelia: Choose your own weapon.
\nGodfrey<\/b>: You won’t hold it against me?
\nCornelia: It’s your day off.
\nGodfrey<\/b>: Very well. You belong to that unfortunate category that I would call the “Park Avenue brat.” A spoiled child who’s grown up in ease and luxury, who’s always had her own way, and whose misdirected energies are so childish that they hardly deserve the comment, even of a butler on his off Thursday.
\nCornelia: Thank you for a very lovely portrait.\n
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\nGodfrey<\/b>: Hasn’t anyone ever told you about certain proprieties?
\nIrene<\/b>: You use such lovely big words. I like big words. What does it mean?
\nGodfrey<\/b>: Well, I’ll try to simplify it. Hasn’t your mother or anyone ever explained to you that some things are proper and some things are not?
\nIrene<\/b>: No she hasn’t. She rambles on quite a bit, but then she never has anything to say.\n
\nGodfrey<\/b>: But you want me to remain, don’t you?
\nIrene<\/b>: Oh, of course!
\nGodfrey<\/b>: And I want to justify your faith in me by being a very good butler and filling the void created by your late, lamented Pomeranian.
\nIrene<\/b>: Oh, I’ve forgotten all about him. He had fleas, anyway. Besides, you’re different. You use big words, and you’re much cuter.\n
\nGodfrey<\/b>: Why can’t you let me alone?
\nIrene<\/b>: Because you’re my responsibility, and someone has to take care of you.
\nGodfrey<\/b>: I can take care of myself.
\nIrene<\/b>: You can’t look me in the eye and say that. You love me and you know it. You know, there’s no sense in struggling against a thing when it’s got you. It’s got you, and that’s all there is to it – it’s got you!\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"