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be long

Examples

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. Benjamin Disraeli

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office. George W. Bush

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time. Saki

If men were now to turn their hostility towards the cat, it would not be long before the domestic cat becomes a wild animal. Nigerian Proverb

He who would be long an old man must begin betimes. Italian Proverb

If you let them put the calf on your shoulders, it will not be long before they clap on the cow. Italian Proverb

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