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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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"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."
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"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"
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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
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"If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?"
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"Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits."
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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
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"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
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"I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried."
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"Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."
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"Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries."
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"The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge."
Knowledge

"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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"Everything is self-evident."
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"The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once."
Time

"Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow."
Joy

"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake."
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"Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it."
Soul

"Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare."
Men

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
Mind
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