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HABIT

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
- "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

A man may have no bad habits and have worse.
- "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar"

To have nothing the matter with you and no habits is pretty tame, pretty colorless. It is just the way a saint feels, I reckon; it is at least the way he looks. I never could stand a saint.
- "An Austrian Health Factory" alternately titled "Marienbad"

You can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you.
- 70th birthday speech, 1905

Habit postcard
Postcard from the
Dave Thomson collection

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