I dream of the day, Sire, when there will be an end to war. I have been your counselor and...
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Mordecai:
[to Ahasuerus]
I dream of the day, Sire, when there will be an end to war. I have been your counselor and counselor to your father Darius, and I have seen death and destruction. I've thought how splendid it would be if all this waste of wealth could be turned to building instead of destroying! The building of aqueducts, the irrigation of the desert, the creation of worth and beauty!
[to Ahasuerus]
I dream of the day, Sire, when there will be an end to war. I have been your counselor and counselor to your father Darius, and I have seen death and destruction. I've thought how splendid it would be if all this waste of wealth could be turned to building instead of destroying! The building of aqueducts, the irrigation of the desert, the creation of worth and beauty!
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I dream of the day sire when there will be an end to war
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I have been your councilor and councilor
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To your father Darius
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I have seen death and destruction
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I thought how splendid it will be if all this waste of wealth
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Could be turned building instead of destroying the building
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Of aqueducts the irrigation of the desert
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The creation of worth and beauty
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Movie Summary
Two decades before she would gain fame and some fortune as Alexis Carrington on Dynasty (1981), Dame Joan Collins starred as Esther in this melodramatic, routine Biblical story. The setting is Persia in the fourth century B.C., as Es
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Mordecai
