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

Habit, Habits, Learning, Thinking

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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."

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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Habit,

"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Habit, Habits, World

"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Habits grow like dragons if you feed them."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Habit is the nursery of errors."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"You are not smoking cigarette, it's cigarette that is smoking you."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

Habit, Addiction, Irony, Control, Health

"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Habit, Effect, Excess, Moderation

"Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"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."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Habit, Reading, Ambition, Books, Procrastination

"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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Explore more quotes by Edward Gibbon

"Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes."

Books

"I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being."

Friendship

"My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India."

Love

"It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work."

Work

"The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness."

Beginning

"The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event."

Performance

"Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking."

Education

"Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."

Freedom

"The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive."

Power

"Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule."

Government