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"Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room."
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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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"Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters."
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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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"I am not a creature of habit."
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"I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done."
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"The more one has engaged in a particular pattern of thought, the more difficult it becomes to override these habitual patterns."
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"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."
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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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"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul."
Architecture
"The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."
Happiness
"Ideas are the root of creation."
Ideas
"All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy."
Philosophy
"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves."
Children
"Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement."
Life
"The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present."
History
"Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it."
People
"Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room."
Habit
"A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers."
Consciousness
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