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

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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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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Victor Hugo, French Author

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

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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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."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"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."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy."

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"The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."

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"Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it."

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"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul."

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"Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking."

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"Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement."

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"Ideas are the root of creation."

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"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves."

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"The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present."

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