Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
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When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket"—which is but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention;" but the wise man saith, "Put all your eggs in the one basket and—watch that basket"
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
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