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“Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.”

Men Stuff Habit Mouths Drinking Satisfied Dirty Contracts Tobacco Filthy Chewing Chewing Tobacco

Author:Thomas Jordan Jarvis

“I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.”

Thinking Found Cities Habit Contracts

Book:An inquiry into the present state of polite learning. The Bee. History of Cyrillo Padovano. Life of Dr. Parnell. Life of Lord Bolingbroke. Prefaces and introductions

Source: An inquiry into the present state of polite learning. The Bee. History of Cyrillo Padovano. Life of Dr. Parnell. Life of Lord Bolingbroke. Prefaces and introductions

“Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.”

Habit Contracts

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw