"The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade."

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"The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade."

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"Habit is the nursery of errors."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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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."

Mark Twain, American Author

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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."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark."

Music

"But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title."

God

"As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour."

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"There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily."

Writing

"The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder."

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"I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse."

Ambition

"They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind."

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"Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning."

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"Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures."

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"Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it."

Love