[Ads-l] Reader's Digest available in Internet Archive; also Quotation: Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. (dubiously attributed to Oscar Wilde in 1954)

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

The Internet Archive now has many issues of Reader’s Digest available.
I do not know when these issues were added to their database.

Happily, I found a citation that had previously eluded me. There is a
column by Walter Winchell dated May 27, 1954 in which he printed the
quotation in the subject line while acknowledging “Reader’s Digest”
(RD).

Now, I have found the quotation in the June 1954 issue of RD. Winchell
was able to see it in RD because this issue was available in late May
1954.

[ref] June 1954, Reader’s Digest, Volume 64, Number 386, (Filler
item), Quote Page 134, The Reader’s Digest Association, Pleasantville,
New York. (Verified with scans) [/ref]

[Begin excerpt]
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
— Oscar Wilde
[End excerpt]

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