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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Habit

"It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth."

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Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman
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"Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly"

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Politician, Philosopher, Orator
Habit

"Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live."

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John Locke Philosopher, Physician
Habit

"Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed"

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