We didn’t exactly believe your story, Miss O’Shaughnessy. We believed your two hundred dollars. I mean, you paid us more than if you’d been telling us the truth, and enough more to make it all right.
~ Humphrey Bogart, The Maltese Falcon, 1941
We Didn’t Exactly Believe Your Story, Miss O’Shaughnessy.
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Actually, you should correct Humphrey Bogart to Samuel Spade, or even more correctly, John Huston.
Dashiell Hammett. The line is in the book.
Bingo!
Please change “Bogard” to “Bogart.”
Thanks for catching the typo, Barbara.