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Tom Jones Quotes
Squire Allworthy: [to Tom, when not expected to recover from a carriage accident] I am convinced, my boy, that you have much goodness, generosity and honor in your nature. If you will add prudence and religion to those, you must be happy.
Tom Jones: It's a good night to be abroad and looking for game.
Lt. Northerton: Better luck in the *next* world, Mr Jones.
Narrator: It is not true that drink alters a man's character. It may reveal it more fully.
Miss Western: You are such a boor. [he misunderstands her comment] Squire Western: A boar? I am no boar!
[Squire Western has drunkenly crashed out on the floor] Miss Western: Rouse yourself from this pastoral torpor, sir!
Narrator: [after Tom celebrates Squire Allworthy's recovery with too much wine] It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will... in a dull man.
Squire Western: Madam, I despise your politics as much as I do a fart.
Narrator: Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us, and many of us much worse.
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1960s Oscar Winners for Best Picture:1969: Midnight Cowboy
1968: Oliver!
1967: In the Heat of the Night
1966: A Man for All Seasons
1965: The Sound of Music
1964: My Fair Lady
1963: Tom Jones
1962: Lawrence of Arabia
1961: West Side Story
1960: The Apartment
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