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As a hard-headed business man, who has to take risks and know what he’s about - i say, you can ignore all this silly pessimist talk.

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-Mr Birling, Act 1

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Titanic - Unsinkable

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-Mr Birling, Act 1

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So long as we behave ourselves, don’t get into the police court or start a scandal - eh?

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-Mr Birling, (Act 1)

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You’d think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense.

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-Mr Birling, (Act 1)

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A few German Officers talking nonsense.

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Mr Birling, (Act 1)

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Still, I can’t accept any responsibility. If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we d had anything to do with, it would be very awkward, wouldn’t it?

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Mr Birling (Act 1)

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Rubbish! If you don’t come down sharply on some of these people, they’d soon be asking for the earth.

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Mr Birling (Act 1)

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(Angrily) Inspector, i’ve told you before, I don’t like the tone nor the way you’re handling this inquiry. And I don’t propose to give you much rope.

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Mr Birling, (Act 2)

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(Angrily) Yes, and you don’t realize yet all you’ve done. Most of this is bound to come out. There’ll be a public scandal.

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Mr Birling, (Act 3)

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(Angrily) Drop that. There’s every excuse for what both your mother and I did.

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Mr Birling, (Act 3)

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That fellow obviously didn’t like us. He was prejudiced from the start. Probably a socialist or some sort of crank - he talked like one. And then, instead of standing up to him, you let him bluff you into talking about your private affairs.

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Mr Birling, (Act 3)

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They might. But after all it’s better to ask for the earth than to take it.

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Inspector Goole, (Act 1)

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(Steadily) That’s more or less what I was thinking earlier tonight when I was in the infirmary looking at what was left of Eva Smith. A nice little promising life there, I thought, and a nasty mess somebody’s made of it.

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Inspector Goole, (Act 1)

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Sometimes there isn’t much difference as you think. Often, if it was left to me, I wouldn’t know where to draw the line between respectable citizens and criminals.

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Inspector Goole, (Act 1)

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(Harshly) Yes, but you can’t. It’s too late. She’s dead.

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Inspector Goole, (Act 1)

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You think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?

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Inspector Goole, (Act 2)

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(Sternly to them both) You see, we have to share something. If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt. (Act 2)

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Inspector Goole, (Act 2)

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(Massively) Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges.

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Inspector Goole, (Act 2)

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(To Mrs B) I think you did something terribly wrong - and that you’re going to spend the rest of your life regretting it.

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Inspector Goole, (Act 2)

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Never forget it. (He looks from one to the other carefully.) But then I don’t think you ever will.

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Inspector Goole, (Act 3)

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“Look, Inspector - I’d give thousands - yes, thousands”

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Mr Birling, (Act 3)

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“They’d soon be asking for the
earth.”

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Mr Birling, (Act 1)