"Never apologize. It's a sign of weakness."

[Jonathan Lighter]

In Charlie's DMP Oas "Don't...")  but not in YBQ. Known to millions because
John Wayne says it in "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (1949). 121,000 hits.

The movie is based partly on the short story "Command," by James Warner
Bellah, which appeared in the _Saturday Evening Post_ for June 8, 1946.

The quotation is on p. 78:

"Mister Cohill, never apologize. It's a mark [sic] of weakness."

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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