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Mister Roberts quotes

  • Ensign Frank Thurlowe Pulver: [singing] If I could be with you one hour tonight / If I was free to do the things I might / I'm telling you true / I'd be anything but blue / If I could be with you.

  • Lt. j.g. Douglas A. Roberts: [Pulver is expecting the company of a woman. Roberts reads out the embroidered words on one of Pulver's pillows in dismay] Tonight or never. Compliments of The American Harvester Company. We plough deep while others sleep.