"Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive."

Habit, Habits

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"Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive."

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"Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit."

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"I got nasty habits; I take tea at three."

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"Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught."

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"The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit."

Martin Henderson, New Zealander Actor

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"Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach."

Sydney Smith, English Clergyman

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"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book."

Edward Gibbon, English Historian

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"Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why."

Henry Van Dyke, American Poet

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"Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you."

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"Medora Manson, in her prosperous days, inaugurated a "literary salon"; but it had soon died out owing to the reluctance of the literary to frequent it."

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"I hate in-the-end kindnesses: they're about as nourishing as the third day of cold mutton."

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"There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul."

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"Believe me, all of you, the best way to help the places we live in is to be glad we live there."

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"Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death."

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"Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one."

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"A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys."

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"The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presence, yet lost the sense of when he was not with her. Its expression was now so vivid that for the first time he seemed to see before him the real Lily Bart, divested of all the trivialities of her little world, and catching for a moment a note of that eternal harmony of whichher beauty was a part."

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