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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

Cultural  

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, so farewell, and thank you for your supper.’

From The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

"One good turn deserves another," they called, for they were the very fish that Hans had thrown into the stream.

From The Story-teller by Florence Liley Young

"One good turn deserves another," he said, "don't it?"

From Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins

The Gallic "A beau jour beau retour," is a very pleasant variant of our saying, "One good turn deserves another."

From Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme

"One good turn deserves another, George," said the old gentleman.

From No Name by Wilkie Collins

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

I don't want any thanks—it was little enough I did; besides, one good turn deserves another, you know.

From Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls by Margaret Bruce Clarke

If any enterprising Yankee should take the hint, and realize a fortune in the enterprise, I trust he will bear in mind, as he retires, that "one good turn deserves another."

From Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico by B. M. Norman