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Although often attributed to Stan Lee via his character Uncle Ben, Spider-Man's Uncle, Voltaire was the first person to use (or at leash publish this phrase) and was probably the source of its popularity / notoriety.

In fact we find records of a UK Member of Parliament in 1817 implying that a variant of it was already a cliché by this point.

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