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dear benjamin,

great quotes! i love this one:

“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”

— Josh Billings

thank you for sharing as always!

love

myq

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That fifth quote should, of course, be credited not to Orson Welles but to Graham Greene, who wrote THE THIRD MAN.

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It originally was! But then I found this evidence that it was an Ol’ Orson Original:

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/politics/miscellany/history-lesson-orson-welles

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and this sent me down a rabbit hole, only to learn that Welles may have been paraphrasing...James McNeill Whistler? https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-third-mans-cuckoo-clock-mystery

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