Raintree County (1957)
Nigel Patrick: Professor Jerusalem Webster Stiles
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Quotes
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Prof. Jerusalem Webster Stiles : [On the back of the train, leaving town in a hurry] Goodbye, dear friend. Remember me as a man who loves Raintree County, but just happens to loathe most of the people in it.
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Prof. Jerusalem Webster Stiles : Greatness? Ha! If that great philosopher, Socrates, were living today, he'd be reduced to sitting on a cracker barrel, chewing tobacco. That's what America does for greatness.
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Man in crowd : [the professor is putting money on a footrace between Flash and Johnny] That there's gold!
Prof. Jerusalem Webster Stiles : My yearly stipend as a teacher. A molder of young minds.
Man in crowd : Fifty dollars!
Prof. Jerusalem Webster Stiles : It's not much, but neither are the minds I mold.
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Prof. Jerusalem Webster Stiles : [to John and Flash, sitting in the woods not far from Confederate lines] Comrades in arms, a toast. To all the men who go out and die, and merely because they have the rotten luck to be born one side or another of a mountain or a creek...
Prof. Jerusalem Webster Stiles : [Takes a swig] And here's to sleep...
Prof. Jerusalem Webster Stiles : [Takes another swig] Let's get a good night of it. Because tomorrow, crusader, you're starting a journey, to a new and unknown land: a place called Hell.
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Prof. Jerusalem Webster Stiles : Take it from one, dear boy, who has dabbled in many a garden of delight: the home-grown tomatoes are always best.
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Prof. Jerusalem Webster Stiles : [Referring to the fact that Mr. Gray, an old man, has managed to marry Lydia, a beautiful young woman] How in the entire realm of plausibility did that chilly January win such a blithesome May?
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Prof. Jerusalem Webster Stiles : [Narrating] May the 16th, 1864. Resaca, Georgia. Another day of dramatic corpse-making.
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Prof. Jerusalem Webster Stiles : [to the photographer, who has just taken the graduating class portrait] Mr. Sterling, you have made us immortal.