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Quote by Somerset Maugham
The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. – Somerset Maugham

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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. – Somerset Maugham

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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. – Somerset Maugham

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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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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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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. – Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. – Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life

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