Have Gun - Will Travel (TV Series)
Helen of Abajinian (1957)
Richard Boone: Paladin
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Quotes
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Jimmy O'Riley : It's the first time I ever took a bath in middle of week!
Paladin : There's a woman at the start of all great things or so says the French poet Lamartine.
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Jimmy O'Riley : Women!
Paladin : Heaven's best gift, the most delightful of God's creatures. Shelley. We are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.
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Paladin : Ancient Armenia was at the crossroads of the world. The origins of the dances is lost in antiquity, a flavour of Greece, Persia, perhaps even of Minoa. But those dances, O'Reilly, are a language, the most compelling and understandable universal language of mankind.
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Paladin : You would let your daughter bring to her marriage, her bedding and her clothing. Such generosity should be written on the side of Mount Ararat for all to see.
[And so begin the negotiations for the dowry]
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Paladin : HeyBoy, I haven't had any good shish kebabs in years, rice pilaf, baklava, Armenian cooking, HeyBoy. Armenian people among the world's finest.
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Jimmy O'Riley : You're all so high-tailed smart, huh. Maybe you know wine, but you don't know ranching. If you're all so fired smart, how come you ain't got a herd of cattle bringing you in money for land and feed you're just throwing away.
Samuel Abajinian : You tell me, Abajinian, how to manage land? A child wises up Abajinian.
Jimmy O'Riley : This child here was running a thousand acres spread when he was nineteen, and making money out of feeding cattle.
Samuel Abajinian : A cowboy, cowboy. Abajinian is no cowboy.
Jimmy O'Riley : You don't have to be a cowboy to know that good beef out here draws- How much?
Paladin : 8 to 10 cents a pound.
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Paladin : An intelligent man doesn't ride off into the night hungry.
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Samuel Abajinian : Five acres of vines and two of trees.
Paladin : Ten and five with a house, fifty sheep, ten goats, six carrying milk.
Samuel Abajinian : Agreed. Agreed. STOP! You are ruining a poor man.
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Paladin : Guns are my business.