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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.
Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.
 Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
 As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.  
 Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
 As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. 
 Habit is overcome by habit.
 [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]  
 Habit is overcome by habit.
 [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.] 
 A civil habit
 Oft covers a good man.  
 A civil habit
 Oft covers a good man. 
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
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.
 Habit with him was all the test of truth;
 "It must be right: I've done it from my youth."  
 Habit with him was all the test of truth;
 "It must be right: I've done it from my youth."