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No good deed goes unpunished

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t means that life is so unfair that one is more likely to get into some sort of trouble than be rewarded if one attempts to do a good deed.

It was attributed to American financier John P. Grier, banker Andrew W. Mellon, and writer Clare Boothe Luce, but its ultimate origin is unknown.