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Tevye
As the good book says, when a poor man eats a chicken, one of them is sick.
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Mendel
Where does the book say that?
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Tevye
Well, it doesn't say that exactly, but somewhere there is something about a chicken.
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Tevye
Is this the little girl I carried? Is this the little boy at play?
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Golde
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.
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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... "
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Rabbi's Son
Moses said that.
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Tevye
Ah. Well, as King David said, "I am slow of speech, and slow of tongue."
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Rabbi's Son
That was also Moses.
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Tevye
For a man who was slow of speech he talked a lot.
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Tzeitel
But Mama, the men she finds. The last one was so old and he was bald. He had no hair.
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Golde
A poor girl without a dowry can't be so particular. You want hair, marry a monkey.
