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"The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon."
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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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"The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it."
Politics
"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."
Reading
"Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000."
Books
"The downtrodden are the great creators of slang."
Lifestyle
"The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon."
Habit
"A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual."
Writing
"Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room."
Peace
"To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art."
Art
"We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation."
Money
"He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child."
Now
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