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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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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
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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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"Habits grow like dragons if you feed them."
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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."
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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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"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
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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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"I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried."
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"Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits."
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"I'm not a politician and my other habits are good."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
Being
"To be honest, to be kind - to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation - above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself - here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. He has an ambitious soul who would ask more; he has a hopeful spirit who should look in such an enterprise to be successful."
Character
"The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death. Then these agonies began swiftly to subside, and I came to myself as if out of a great sickness. There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably sweet. I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a millrace in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but innocent freedom of the soul. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine."
Experience
"Vanity dies hard, in some obstinate cases it outlives the man."
Behavior
"There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all others."
Literature
"So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."
Relationship
"There is but one art to omit."
Expression
"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people."
Virtue
"Ah sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth and none or almost none for the disenchantments of age."
Life
"A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right."
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