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"Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have."
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"Habit is the nursery of errors."
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"Laws are never as effective as habits."
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"Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?"
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"Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty."
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"Habits grow like dragons if you feed them."
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"You are not smoking cigarette, it's cigarette that is smoking you."
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"Bad habits are demons that often push us into isolation because they know that in our loneliness they stand little chance of being overcome."
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"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."
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"Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state."
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"Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing."
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"I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error."
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"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
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"Everything is self-evident."
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"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
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"An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?"
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"I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery."
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"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
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"In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate."
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"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."
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"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."
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