"Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."

Habit, Change, Patience, Progress

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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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"Habit is the nursery of errors."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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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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"Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried."

S. A. Tawks, British 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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"Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired."

David Lloyd George, Welsh Statesman

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Explore more quotes by Mark Twain

"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."

Life

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

Happiness

"In the afternoon the ship's company assembled aft, on deck, under the awnings; the flute, the asthmatic meodeon, and the consumptive clarinet crippled the Star Spangled Banner, the choir chased it to cover, and George came in with a peculiarly lacerating screech on the final note and slaughtered it. Nobody mourned. We carried out the corpse on three cheers (that joke was not intentional and I do not endorse it)."

Humor

"When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved."

Society

"One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke."

Writing

"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little."

Wisdom

"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."

Happiness

"Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do."

Writing

"Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed - because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays."

Reflection

"T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others."

Writing