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

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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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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"Habits grow like dragons if you feed them."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Habit is the nursery of errors."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Habit, Errors

"You are not smoking cigarette, it's cigarette that is smoking you."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

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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."

Mark Twain, American Author

Habit, Change, Patience, Progress

"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."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Habit, Reading, Ambition, Books, Procrastination

"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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"Habits are good if you have the habit of the best."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment."

Possibility

"Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks."

Work

"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."

Talent

"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."

Failure

"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."

Emotional

"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."

Experience

"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time."

Time

"It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."

People

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

Heart

"Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black."

Education