"Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that……" — Thomas Jefferson

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• Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful. — Alec Baldwin
• For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock. — Aeschylus
• Prayer begets Revival, which begets more prayer. — Jim Cymbala
• There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history… — Douglas MacArthur
• There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which… — Michel de Montaigne
• Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which… — James Madison
• Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness. — Jean Cocteau
• Remorse begets reform. — William Cowper
• Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event… — David Hume
• Solitude begets whimsies. — Mary Wortley Montagu
• Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished… — Honore de Balzac

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