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"Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach."
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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
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"Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state."
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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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"Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty."
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"Laws are never as effective as habits."
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"Bad habits are demons that often push us into isolation because they know that in our loneliness they stand little chance of being overcome."
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"I know that trying to begin a new habit may be uncomfortable, inconvenient, or challenging. However, when the goal is to feel terrific, isn't it worth your consideration?"
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"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."
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"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."
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"I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table."
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"Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up."
Clothes
"What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!"
Fans
"In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style."
Idea
"I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury."
Illusion
"Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect."
Love
"Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in."
Chance
"As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen."
Men
"Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach."
Habit
"I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland."
Scotland
"The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions."
Intellect
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