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Habit, Handicaps

A farmer owned a dog which the neighborhood kids continually pestered by tying tin cans to its tail. Finally, the dog became so accustomed to them that whenever it saw a can it backed up to it.
Alben W. Barkley, in speech made while Vice President

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning the trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against.
Edith Wharton

The capacity for forming habits is the kindest device that God uses for the preservation of His Creatures.
Ernst Bon Feuchtersleben; Zur Diatetik der Seele

For the ordinary Business of life an ounce of habit is worth a pound of intellect.
Thomas B. Reed

In the beginning we make our own habits; but in the end our habits make us.
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