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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."

"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."

"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
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"He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever."

"It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them."

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

"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."

"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."

"She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good."
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