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A good deed never goes unpunished.

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Gore Vidal
American - Writer
October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012

Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.

David Helvarg

No good deed goes unpunished.

Clare Boothe Luce

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

Clare Boothe Luce

No good deed goes unpunished- Syn

Sherrilyn Kenyon

No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.

Joe Haldeman

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

Orison Swett Marden

In the world of 'Power,' no good deed goes unpunished. I don't really look at it as karma in the world of 'Power.' Whenever any character thinks they're on safe ground, they get the world pulled up from under them.

Lela Loren

Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solemnity, favoring anarchy and joy over duty and humbuggery while acknowledging that oftentimes no good deed goes unpunished. But ultimately, it was his sheer joie de vivre that carried the day.

Paul Di Filippo

In the modern university, no act of good teaching goes unpunished.

Charlie Sykes

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

Agatha Christie

Good deeds never go unpunished.

E. B. White

Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.

Sidney Poitier

No good deed ever goes wasted.

Harold S. Kushner

It is not the deed we do Though the deed be never so fair, But the love that the dear Lord looketh for, Hidden with lovely care In the heart of the deed so fair.

Christina Rossetti

No mercy goes unpunished by the angry gods.

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