Lost Horizon
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No, I'm just a little bowled over, that's all.
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Forgive me.
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I should've told you it's quite common here
to live to a very ripe old age.

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Climate, diet, mountain water,
you might say.

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But we like to believe it is
the absence of struggle in the way we live.

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In your countries, on the other hand,
how often do you hear the expression:

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"He worried himseIf to death,"
or, "This thing or that killed him"?

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-Very often.
-And very true.

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Your lives are, therefore, as a rule, shorter.
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Not so much by natural death,
as by indirect suicide.

:51:36
That's all very fine if it works out.
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A little amazing, of course.
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You surprise me.
:51:42
I surprise you ! Now, that's news.
:51:45
I mean your amazement.
:51:47
I could've understood it
in any of your companions, but you...

:51:50
...who have dreamed
and written so much about better worlds.

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Or is it that you fail to recognise
one of your own dreams when you see it?

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If you don't mind,
I think I'll go on being amazed...

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-...in moderation, of course.
-Then everything's quite all right?

:52:16
It's terrific!
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I just saw something
that'd make your hair stand on end.

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You see those hills over there? Gold.
Popping right out of them. Tons of it.

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You keep this under your hat.
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If the others hear about it,
they'll declare themselves in.

:52:30
But if I can mine that stuff,
I'll throw a bombshell into Wall Street.

:52:34
Now look, I've got a plan and if I--
:52:38
Say, honey...
:52:41
...you ain't feeling so well, are you?
:52:45
Don't pay attention
to what those doctors tell you.

:52:48
I've seen a lot of people fool 'em.
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And I've got a hunch this place
is gonna be good for you. Honest I have.

:52:55
Come on, you be a good kid
and snap out of it.

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And I'll cut you in on the gold deal.
:52:59
I'm going up and make a deal
with Chang right now.


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