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

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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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"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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"I am not a politician, and my other habits air good."

Charles Farrar Browne, American Writer

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"I'm not a politician and my other habits are good."

Charles Farrar Browne, American Writer

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"A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them."

Frank Howard Clark, American Writer

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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."

Ernest Dimnet, French Clergyman

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"There is no influence like the influence of habit."

Gilbert Parker, British Politician

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"It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions."

Frederick Robertson, English Clergyman

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"Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing."

Holbrook Jackson, English Writer

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"The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late."

Ogden Nash, American Poet

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"The gnarled fidelity of an old habit."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

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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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"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."

Man

"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."

Body

"Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible."

Man

"Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil."

Society

"Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true."

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"It is thus with most of us we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay."

Philosophy

"We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves."

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"Faith is primarily a process of identification the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal."

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