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"I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty."
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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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"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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"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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"I know that trying to begin a new habit may be uncomfortable, inconvenient, or challenging. However, when the goal is to feel terrific, isn't it worth your consideration?"
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"Habits grow like dragons if you feed them."
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"Old habits are strong and jealous."
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"It's not what we do once-it's what we do once a day, day in and day out, every day that brings lasting change into our lives."
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"We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort."
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"The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest."
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"I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety."
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"Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?"
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"The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated."
Education

"A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."
Mystery

"Truly, the old maid is a most useful person, one of the reserve forces of the community. They talk of the superfluous woman, but what would the poor superfluous man do without her kindly presence?"
Community

"Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them."
Fact

"There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book."
Books

"Of all ghosts, the ghosts of our old loves are the worst."
Memory

"The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime."
Profession
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