Variant: If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong!
Source: Angels & Demons
Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 3, “Bottle of Memories” (p. 42)
“Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?”
Cartoon caption, The New Yorker (5 June 1937); "Word Dance--Part One", A Thurber Carnival (1960)
Cartoon captions
Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber On Writing And Writers, Humor And Himself
“I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.”
Source: 2000s, Promises to Keep (2008), Page 42
“It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.”
“I…regret…what I did. It was wrong. Very wrong. But regret is meaningless.”
Source: The Broken Kingdoms (2011), Chapter 16 “From the Depths to the Heights” (watercolor) (p. 283)
Source: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 20, “Tally on Down” (p. 246)
to conservative Alaskan columnist Paul Jenkins, in response to a comparison of emails showing her actions in conducting campaign business on City time to state Republican leader Randy Ruedrich conducting party business on state time, , quoted in [2008-09-14, Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes, Jo Becker, Peter S. Goodman and Michael Powell, The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html]
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