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"Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?"
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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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"To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring."
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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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"At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect."
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"There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid."
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"There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath."
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"A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things."
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"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."
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"Truth is in things, and not in words."
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"He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great."
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"Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges."
Truth

"Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged."
Freedom

"There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future."
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