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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
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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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"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."
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Personal Development

"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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"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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"Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty."
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Personal Development

"Laws are never as effective as habits."
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Personal Development

"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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"I know that trying to begin a new habit may be uncomfortable, inconvenient, or challenging. However, when the goal is to feel terrific, isn't it worth your consideration?"
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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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"I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse."
Ambition

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

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

"Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early."
Success

"It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something."
Mistake

"A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit."
Marriage

"There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel."
Happiness

"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."
Life

"Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour."
Wealth

"Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks."
Power
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