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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as a

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. – Hosea Ballou

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Education commences at the mothers knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. – Hosea Ballou

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Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: Ive done it from my youth. – George Crabbe

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Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. – William James, The Principles of Psychology

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Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves. – Horace Bushnell

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To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring. – E. M. Cioran

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