"They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit."

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"They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit."

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"Habit is the nursery of errors."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Habit, Errors

"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Habit,

"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Habit, Today, Power, Truth, Wisdom

"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

"If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?"

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Habit, Repetition, Humor, Behavior, Awareness

"Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Habit, Habits

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

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Habit,

"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Habit, Being

"I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Habit, Smoking, Control, Choice

"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

Habit, Change, Patience, Progress

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"The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience."

Experience

"The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this."

Creativity

"One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised."

Integrity

"Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again."

Democracy

"People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories."

People

"When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see."

People

"When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool."

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"Habit is the nursery of errors."

"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."

"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"

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

"If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?"

"Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits."

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

"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."

"I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried."

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

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"The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience."

"The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this."

"One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised."

"Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again."

"Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be."

"A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself."

"The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair."

"People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories."

"When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see."

"When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool."