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START: DOGSBOROUGH: I should never have accepted this estate. Taking that package as a gift was beyond reproach.
YOUNG DOGSBOROUGH: Of course it was.
DOGSBOROUGH: And sponsoring that loan, when I discovered to my own detriment that a thriving line of business was languishing for lack of funds, was hardly dishonest.
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END: DOGSBOROUGH: I haven’t anything to do with this affair. For sixty years I’ve trodden the narrow path, as everybody knows. They can’t involve me in their schemes.
YOUNG DOGSBOROUGH: No, father. Do you feel better now?
Brecht, Bertolt. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. Methuen Publishing, 2002, pp.27-29.
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