No good deed (was My doc was too good)

[Keith Hood]

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.net.il"
<nosnivel at netvision.net.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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Keith Hood
Senior (only) tech writer
ACS, Inc.

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