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Quote by Samuel Johnson
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. – Samuel Johnson

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Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. – Samuel Johnson

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Thrift
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Samuel Johnson
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My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. – Samuel Johnson

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Age
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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. – Samuel Johnson

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Greed
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Good habits result from resisting temptation. – Proverb

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The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation. – Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life

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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. – Agatha Christie

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Habits

Make good habits and they will make you. – Parks Cousins

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Habits

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