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The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad read more
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
 How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit.
 [Lat., Quam multa injusta ac prava fiunt moribus!]  
 How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit.
 [Lat., Quam multa injusta ac prava fiunt moribus!] 
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.
Habits are the shorthand of behavior.
Habits are the shorthand of behavior.
 Habit had made the custom.
 [Lat., Morem fecerat usus.]  
 Habit had made the custom.
 [Lat., Morem fecerat usus.] 
 A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit.
 [Lat., Clavus clavo pellitur, consuetudo consuetudine read more 
 A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit.
 [Lat., Clavus clavo pellitur, consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.] 
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.