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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

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything, a good reason and the real reason.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose

All wealth is the product of labor.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property