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• One good turn deserves another
  One good turn deserves another

  A kindness is properly met with another kindness.
• one good turn deserves another
  one good turn deserves another

  A favor should be returned in kind, as in I'll give you a ride next time—one good turn deserves another. This maxim was first recorded about 1400, and the converse, One bad turn deserves another, about 1500.

One good turn deserves another

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1. A kindness is properly met with another kindness.

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one good turn deserves another Idioms  

1. A favor should be returned in kind, as in I'll give you a ride next time—one good turn deserves another. This maxim was first recorded about 1400, and the converse, One bad turn deserves another, about 1500.

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"One good turn deserves another," said he, laughing; "so you must help me out again; but don't doubt for a moment that your turn will come, too, some day."

From Who Goes There? by Blackwood Ketcham Benson

One good turn deserves another; and gratitude is excited by so noble and natural a spirit, that he ought to be looked upon as the vilest of creatures who has no sense of it.

From ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. by ?sop

"One good turn deserves another, and—gets it this time," said Lancy, with a meaning smile.

From Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces by Stanford Eveleth

One good turn deserves another, as they say; and something was beating in my head that I could help you, serve as a stay; so I had to come.

From The Lake by George (George Augustus) Moore

One good turn deserves another, so farewell, and thank you for your supper.’

From The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

It’s also a story about how one good turn deserves another and yet another.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 29, 2020

Washington gossips thought they knew the answer: the General, his appetite for public life whetted, hankers for a Cabinet post, thinks the President will recognize that one good turn deserves another.

From Time Magazine Archive

I look at our cart, and decide that one good turn deserves another.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

"Surely one good turn deserves another," thought the bee, as she turned merrily to her work.

From The Nursery, April 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 4 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers by Various

Next, there is Arthur Barnes, "the champion of all the world" who throws "ninety-one summersaults in succession;" a living anatomical illustration of the truth that one good turn deserves another.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various