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HABIT: Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
HABIT: The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement. (John Stuart Mill, British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, 1806-1873)
HABIT: Laws are never as effective as habits. (Adlai Stevenson, U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)
HABIT: Custom, that unwritten law, by which the people keep even kings in awe. (Charles Davenport, U.S. prominent eugenicist and biologist, 1866-1944)
HABIT: The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)