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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
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"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."
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"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."
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"Habits grow like dragons if you feed them."
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"Habit is the nursery of errors."
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"You are not smoking cigarette, it's cigarette that is smoking you."
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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
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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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"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
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"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."
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"To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact."
Truth
"I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions."
Fact
"At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world."
Future
"We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."
Man
"It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine."
Evil
"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts."
Control
"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."
History
"An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men."
Men
"We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act."
Act
"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin."
Nature
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