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Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are s

Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts. – Mortimer J. Adler

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