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Extreme happiness begets tragedy.
'Tis money that begets money.
For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
And in this too profit begets profit.
Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden ...
Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotabl ...
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he s ...
You will not see
that desire begets
love,
until it all flames
into one concise
and metallic blaze.
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
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