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«Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.»
Author: Eustace Budgell
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Friendship
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good and, habitual, inclination, persons, promote, promotes
«Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve»
«Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.»
Author: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
(Consultant, Speaker)
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Habit
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habitual, innovation, mindless
«Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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Life
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deceived, deception, habitual, uninterrupted
«I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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advantageous, blooded, brilliant, comparison, drunkards, fall into, habitual, proneness, warm-blooded
«I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class»
«One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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brutalize, brutalized, brutalizes, brutalizing, committed, community, crime, crimes, Crime and Punishment, employment, habitual, infinitely, inflicted, not absolutely, occasional, occurrence, occurrences, punishment, punishments, sicken, sickened, sickening, sickens, wicked
«In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Truth
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artificial, covers, equivalent, good-humored, good humor, habitual, in truth, nearly, politeness, rendering, substitute, The Natural
«He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.»
«Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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activity, automatic, habitual, hundredths, ninety, Ninety nine, Nine hundred, possibly, purely, rising, thousandth, thousandths
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