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"There is no influence like the influence of habit."
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"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."

"Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters."

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

"I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done."

"The more one has engaged in a particular pattern of thought, the more difficult it becomes to override these habitual patterns."

"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."
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"Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry."

"Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living."

"It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be."

"There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted."

"There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance."
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