Tributary
A tributary is a contributory stream, a river that doesn't reach the sea, but joins another major river (a parent river), to which it contributes its waters, swelling its discharge. Network analysis examines the arrangement of tributaries in a hierarchy of 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. orders.The opposite of a tributary is a distributary; a distributary is a river branch that flows away from the main stream.
Protestants, in general, are better instructed
Rather appeared to study with than to instruct me
Read description of any malady without thinking it mine
Remorse wakes amid the storms of adversity
Reproach me with so many contradictions
Rogues know how to save themselves at the expense of the feeble
Seeking, by fresh offences, a return of the same chastisement
Slighting her favors, if within your reach, a unpardonable crime
Substituting cunning to knowledge
Taught me it was not so terrible to thieve as I had imagined
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There is nothing in this world but time and misfortune
This continued desire to control me in all my wishes
To make him my apologies for the offence he had given me
Trusting too implicitly to their own innocence
Virtuous minds, which vice never attacks openly
We learned to dissemble, to rebel, to lie
When once we make a secret of anything to the person we love
Whence comes it that even a child can intimidate a man
Whole universe would be interested in my concerns
Wish thus to be revenged of me for their humiliation
Writing for bread would soon have extinguished my genius
from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, by David Widger
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