Fiddler on the Roof

Hodel: [to Tevye] The world is changing, Papa. Fyedka: [introducing himself to Chava] I'm a pleasant fellow - charming, honest, ambitious, quite bright, and very modest. Hodel: We only have one Rabbi, and he only has one son. Why shouldn't I want the best? Motel: If the rich could hire others to die for them, we, the poor, would all make a nice living. Motel: Even a poor tailor is entitled to some happiness! Motel: You'll all chatter yourselves away into the grave.

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Tevye: As the good book says, when a poor man eats a chicken, one of them is sick. Mendel: Where does the book say that? Tevye: Well, it doesn't say that exactly, but somewhere there is something about a chicken. Good Sabbath!

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Tevye: [singing] Is this the little girl I carried? Is this the little boy at play? Golde: [singing] I don't remember growing older. When did they?

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Perchik: In this world it is the wealthy who are criminals. Someday their wealth will be ours. Tevye: That would be nice. If they would agree, I would agree.

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Tevye: As Abraham said, "I am a stranger in a strange land..." Mendel: Moses said that. Tevye: Ah. Well, as King David said, "I am slow of speech, and slow of tongue." Mendel: That was also Moses. Tevye: For a man who was slow of tongue, he talked a lot.

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Perchik: Money is the world's curse. Tevye: May the Lord smite me with it! And may I never recover!

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