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Yes, Minister · Season 3, Episode 7

Sir Humphrey in “The Middle-Class Rip-Off”

Sir Humphrey

[calmly] Bernard, subsidy is for art, for culture. [almost furiously] It is not to be given to what the people want! It is for what the people don't want but ought to have!

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