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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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"Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines."
Church
"I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment."
Colors
"The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study."
Habit
"I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work."
Work
"We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own."
Travel
"I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight."
Work
"I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian."
Life
"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."
Beauty
"As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them."
People
"I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind."
Love
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