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"Style is the image of character."
Character
"My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India."
Love
"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself."
Self-Education
"Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."
Freedom
"Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition."
Hope
"The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful."
People
"Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule."
Government
"Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity."
Emotional
"My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language."
Literature
"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular."
Law
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"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"
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Personal Development
"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
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Personal Development
"Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits."
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Personal Development
"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
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Personal Development
"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
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Personal Development
"I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"90% of what we do daily is not what we think, it's just driven by our desires and not potentials."
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Personal Development
"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."
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Personal Development
"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."
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Personal Development
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