The Talk of the Town
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:47:00
That's the way every decent
person around here feels about it.

:47:04
If feelings influenced law, half the
country would be in jail. Facts.

:47:10
My dear professor, people wind facts
around each other like pretzels.

:47:16
Facts alone, that's a nut
without a kernel.

:47:18
Where's the soul? The instinct?
Where's the warm, human side?

:47:22
Conduct the law on sentimentality and
you will have violence and disorder.

:47:28
Your way, you have a Greek statue.
Beautiful, but dead.

:47:32
All right, two schools of thought.
:47:36
I see your point of view, theoretically.
In fact, I respect it.

:47:41
I wish I could
respect yours, professor.

:47:45
Joseph puts it a little strongly.
He does respect you.

:47:48
He's for the practical side, the
garden-variety type of human experience.

:47:54
- Yes, and makes the law up as he goes.
- Out of common sense, yes.

:47:59
The way I see it, you don't live in this
country, you just take up room in it.

:48:04
- Now, Joseph.
- That's all right.

:48:06
- Discussion amongst friends.
- Delightful.

:48:09
All you know about the American scene
is what you read in magazines.

:48:13
Somebody else's impressions
hashed up for lazy people.

:48:17
If you don't feel it yourself,
you've learned nothing.

:48:22
- Miss Shelley, I am at a total loss.
- That'll do, Joseph, for this morning.

:48:28
Professor, I challenge you
to make an experiment.

:48:32
Spend half a day with books and the
other half finding out what people do.

:48:36
With these indoor habits of yours,
you've got the complexion of gravel.

:48:41
- You're no oil painting yourself.
- A mummy's closer. They wore beards.

:48:50
Well, Joseph, what would you suggest?
:48:54
Well, there's a baseball game today.
:48:58
Baseball? Baseball!

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