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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life. ↗

— John Lawson

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I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. ↗

— John Dryden

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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. ↗

— John Dryden

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Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

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As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

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When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place. ↗

— Christopher Gist

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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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