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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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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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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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Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse. – Chaucer

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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. – Yiddish Proverb

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The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind. – Maria De Beausacq

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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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