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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
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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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"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."
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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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"I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried."
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"Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty."
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"I am not a creature of habit."
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"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."
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"The more one has engaged in a particular pattern of thought, the more difficult it becomes to override these habitual patterns."
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"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."
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"I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool."
Values
"The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency."
Expediency
"Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction."
Simplicity
"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."
Party
"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise."
Censure
"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too."
Comfort
"There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are."
Process
"Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does."
Gender
"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
Rules
"To write simply is as difficult as to be good."
Simplicity
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