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"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."
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"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"
Age

"Concealed talent brings no reputation."
Talent

"Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s."
Nature

"Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known."
Nothing

"Humility is truth."
Truth

"Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders."
Old

"To know nothing is the happiest life."
Life

"The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men."
Man

"The desire to write grows with writing."
Desire

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."
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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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"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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"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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"90% of what we do daily is not what we think, it's just driven by our desires and not potentials."
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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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"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."
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