Quote #29

Rance: You may speak freely in front of me. I represent Her Majesty's Government. Your immediate superiors in madness. I'm from the Commissioners. Prentice: Which branch? Rance: The mental branch. Prentice: Do you cover asylums proper? Or just houses of tentative madness? Rance: My brief is infinite. I'd have sway over a rabbit hutch if the inmates were mentally disturbed.

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