Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Mark TwainThe Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894 · Chapter XV: The Robber Robbed
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
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Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
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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