No good deed (was My doc was too good)

["nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il" <nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il>]

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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