If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
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Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
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