Subject:Re: No good deed (was My doc was too good) From:Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Sun, 3 Sep 2006 10:14:01 -0700 (PDT)
Ye god and devils, you actually looked it up AND
CROSS-REFERENCED IT?!
Ladies and gentlemen, I think the career slot "God of
Editing" has been filled. :-)
--- "nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il"
<nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il> wrote:
> Keith writes:
> > I prefer the original. Eli Wallach, the
> > bandit chieftain in "The Magnificent Seven,"
> > put it this way:
> > "This just goes to show, sooner or later you
> > must pay for every good deed." :-)
>
> Did Claire Booth Luce ghost that script?
> She's quoted as saying "No good deed goes
> unpunished" in 1957. There's also a 1953
> version from "a Dutch official" and a
> reference to "an old Swedish aphorism;"
> for all those, see
>
<http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0403e&L=ads-l&P=3199>.
>
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