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"I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty."
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"Habit is the nursery of errors."
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"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."
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"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"
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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
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"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?"
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"Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits."
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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
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"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
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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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"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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"Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."
Time
"London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."
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"Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature."
Nature
"The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."
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"I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner."
Impression
"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it."
Man
"I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children."
Character
"From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other."
Possibility
"Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst."
Old
"We can't command our love, but we can our actions."
Love
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