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"One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them."
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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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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
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"Habit is the nursery of errors."
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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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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
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"I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table."
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"Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters."
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"Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful."
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"The gnarled fidelity of an old habit."
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"It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions."
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"There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself."
Talent
"Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones."
Libraries
"He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery."
Flattery
"When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so."
Acquaintance
"God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs."
God
"He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals."
Love
"Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions."
God
"One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them."
Habit
"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
Idea
"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."
People
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