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Revenge is a dish best served cold

Posted by Markitos on July 31, 2001

In Reply to: Revenge is a dish best served cold posted by katherine selby on July 30, 2001

: Who said/wrote this originally?

Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderios de LaClos (1741-1803). He originally said it in French in his 1782 book Les Liasons Dangereuses: "La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid,"

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