"When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living."

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"When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living."

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"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Habit is the nursery of errors."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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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."

William James, American Philosopher

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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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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table."

Patrick White, Australian Author

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"Habit is a great deadener."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

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"Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters."

Delia Smith, British Entertainer

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"Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful."

Charles Simmons, American Author

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"To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread."

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"Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours."

Heart

"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."

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"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."

Time

"You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself."

World

"Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned."

World

"The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."

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"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."

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"If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons."

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"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

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