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HABIT
HAIR --- HANGOVER

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HABIT/S

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence
then, is not an act, but a habit.
--Aristotle (384—322 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.
_Nicomachean Ethics_

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"Mrs. Trollope is commendably bitter
Against the filthy American spitter .... "

From that day forward, offenders against etiquette in New York's
theaters were hooted down with lusty cries of "Trollope! Trollope!"
(The chewing and spitting of tobacco was the great American
practice, or rather vice, that most upset the sensitivities of
European visitors. The country seems to have been a maze of
spittoons at ankle level. During the nineteenth century every
member of the Senate and House of Representatives had his
own "spit box," and there was a giant spittoon at the door of
the White House itself.)
--Michael and Ariane Batterberry
_On the Town in New York_ [1999]

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Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit,
and you reap a character; sow a character, and
you reap a destiny.
--George Dana Boardman, the younger
(1828—1903)
President of the American Baptist Missionary Union.

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom
where its edicts are not resisted.
--Christian Nestell Bovee (1820—1904)
American writer.

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every
day for a year, you would end by believing him.
--Edmund Burke (1729—1797)
Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters.

"Is it true that you smoke eight to ten cigars a day?"
"That's true."
"Is it true that you drink five martinis a day?"
"That's true."
"Is it true that you still surround yourself with beautiful
young women?"
"That's true."
"What does your doctor say about all of this?"
"My doctor is dead."
--George Burns [Nathan Birnbaum] (1896—1996)
American comedian.

Habit with him was all the test of truth,
It must be right: I've done it from my youth.
--George Crabbe (1754—1832)
English poet.
"The Vicar", letter 3
_The Borough_ [1810]

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to
think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking
and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and
procrastination.
--Thomas De Quincey (1785—1859)
English essayist and critic.
"Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts" [1827]

I never could have done what I have done without the
habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the
determination to concentrate myself on one subject at
a time.
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
In Michael E. Ruge
_Quote-a-quote: To Your Success..._, p. 42 [2005].

Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to
actions, actions form habits, habits decide character,
and character fixes our destiny.
--attributed to Tryon Edwards (1809—1894)
American theologian.

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Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased
by the corresponding actions; as the habit of walking,
by walking; of running, by running. If you would be a
reader, read; if a writer, write. But if you do not read
for a month together, but do something else, you will
see what will be the consequence. So after sitting
still for ten days, get up and attempt to take a long
walk, and you will find how your legs are weakened.
Upon the whole, then, whatever you would make
habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a
thing habitual, do not practice it, but habituate
yourself to something else.

It is the same with regard to the operations of the
soul. Whenever you are angry, be assured it is not
only a present evil, but that you have increased a
habit, and added fuel to a fire. When you are
overcome by the seductions of a woman, do not
consider it as a single defeat alone, but that you
have fed, that you have increased your incontinence.
For it is impossible but that the habits and facilities
must either be first produced, or strengthened and
increased, by corresponding actions. Hence the
philosophers derive the growth of all maladies.
When you once desired money, for example, if
reason be applied to produce a sense of the evil,
the desire ceases, and the governing faculty of
the mind regains its authority; whereas, if you apply
no remedy, it returns no more to its former state,
but being again similarly excitedit kindles at the
desire more quickly than before; and by frequent
repititions at last becomes callous, and by this
weakness is the love of money established. For
he who has a fever, even after it has left him, is
not in the same state of health as before, unless
he was perfectly cured; and the same thing happens
in distempers of the soul likewise. There are certain
traces and blisters left in it, which, unless they are
well effaced, whenever a new hurt is received in the
same part, instead of blisters will become sores.

If you would not be of an angry temper, then, do not
feed the habit. Give it nothing to help it increase. Be
quiet at first and reckon the days in which you have
not been angry. I used to be angry every day; now
every other day; then every third and fourth day; and
if you miss it so long as thirty days, offer a of
Thanksgiving to God. For habit is first weakened
and then entirely destroyed....

--Epictetus (55—135)
Greek philosopher.
_Discources And Enchiridion_


No man is free who is not master of himself.
--Epictetus (55—135)
Greek philosopher.
In James Laughlin Hughes
_Froebel's Educational Laws for All Teachers_, p. 177 [1897].

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Each year, one bad habit rooted out, in time
ought to make the worst man good.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.

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Ira Gershwin (1896—1983) American lyricist.

Gershwin was a keen poken player, but
very unlucky. After a particularly disastrous
evening, he announced to his friends, "I
take an oath, I'll never pick up a card
again.' After a moment's pause, he added,
'Unless, of course, I have guests who want
to play. . . Or, unless I am a guest in another
man's house.' He paused again. 'Or whatever
circumstances arise.'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether
the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
--Carl Gustav Jung (1875—1961)
Swiss psychologist.

No one ever became thoroughly bad all at once.
[Lat., Nemo repente venit turpissimus.]
--Juvenal (c. 55—130)
Roman satirist.
_Satires_, II, 33

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that
he can't give up a thing without wanting everyone else
to give it up. That isn't the Christian way.
--C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (1898—1963)
British scholar and novelist.
_Christian Behavior_ [1944]

If you always do what you always did, you
will always get what you always got.
--Moms Mabley (1897—1975)
African-American vaudeville performer and comedian.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents
moderation from acquiring the deadening effect
of habit.
--W. Somerset Maugham (1874—1965)
English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standard
hindrance to human advancement.
--John Stuart Mill (1806—1873)
English philosopher and social reformer.

Character is simply habit long continued.
--Plutarch (A.D. 46?—119?)
Greek philosopher and biographer.

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Will Rogers (1879—1935)
American humorist and actor.

On a visit to Paris, Rogers sent a picture
postcard of the Venus de Milo to his young
niece. On the back he wrote: 'See what
will happen if you don't stop biting your
fingernails.'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make
prudence a habit and reckless profligacy will become revolting ...
Even happiness itself can become habitual. There is a habit of
looking at the bright side of things, also of looking at the dark
side. Dr. Johnson has said that the habit of looking at the best
side of a thing is worth more to a man than a thousand pounds
a year . . . . And to bring up men and women with a genial nature
of this sort, a good temper, and a happy frame of mind, is perhaps
of even more importance, in many cases, than to perfect them in
much knowledge and many accomplishments.
--Samuel Smiles (1812—1904)
Scottish author.

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.


Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the
window by any man, but coaxed downstairs
a step at a time.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.

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No matter how far you have gone
on the wrong road, turn back.
--Turkish proverb

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inveterate [in-VET-uhr-it], adjective:
1. Firmly established by long persistence; deep-rooted; of
long standing.
2. Fixed in habit by long persistence; confirmed; habitual.
Ex.: He is an inveterate nibbler, popping nuts and chocolate
into his mouth as he talks, leaning forward in his chair to
forage in the tins with his right hand.
--Michael Ignatieff, _Isaiah Berlin: A Life_
Syn:: chronic, confirmed, deep-seated, habitual.



HAIR

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see: "THE BODY"


It was a blonde. A blonde to make a
bishop kick a hole in a stained glass
window.
--Raymond Chandler (1888—1959)
American writer of detective fiction.
_Farewell My Lovely_ [1940]

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say,
'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
--Anton Chekhov (1860—1904)
Russian dramatist and short-story wrriter.
_Uncle Vanya_ [1897], Act 3

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George Kelly (1887—1974)
American playwright.

On his deathbed Kelly was visited by his sister
Mary's daughter, who had come to see her uncle
for the last time. As she leaned forward to kiss
him the old man whispered softly, 'My dear,
before you kiss me goodbye, fix your hair.
It's a mess.'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
--Sophocles (496?—406 B.C.)
Greek dramatist.
_Oedipus at Colonus_ l. 1625

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John Wesley (1703-1791)
British religious leader.

At a stormy meeting a ruffian raised his hand to strike
John Wesley on the head, but as he brought it down he
checked his blow and murmured, 'What soft hair he has!'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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[Trivia: In 1829, when Mrs. Lydia Child wrote The Frugal
Housewife, New England rum was considered an excellent
shampoo (and brandy was thought to strengthen the roots).]

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hirsute [HUR-soot]; adj.:
Covered with hair; set with bristles; shaggy; hairy.
Ex.: He was incredibly hirsute: there was even a thick pelt
of hair on the back of his hands.
--Tama Janowitz _By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee_



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HANGOVER

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see "ALCOHOL" for related links


The water wagon is the place for me.
Last night at twelve I felt immense;
Today I feel like thirty cents.
My eyes are bleared, my coppers hot,
I'd like to eat but I cannot!
It is no time for mirth and laughter —
The cold, grey dawn of the morning after.
--George Ade (1866—1944)
American playwright and humorist.
"Remorse" in _The Sultan of Sulu_ [1902]

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'Can I fix you a Bromo Selzer
sir?' asked a waiter of W. C. Fields, who was groaning
in the grip of a fearful hangover. 'No,' moaned
Fields, "I can't stand the noise.'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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A hair of the dog that bit us.
--John Heywood (1497—1580)
English playwright.
_Proverbs_ [1546]
(Old recipe books advised that an inebriate should drink sparingly
in the morning some of the same kind of liquor which he had drunk
to excess the night before. (Bartlett's).)

You can't get away from yourself by
going to a booze-bazaar.
--Elbert Hubbard (1859—1915)
American editor, publisher, and author who
died in the sinking of the "Lusitania."
_The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams_ [1923]

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I woke up Sunday morning
With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad
So I had one more for desert.

Fumbled thru my closets, thru my clothes
And found my cleanest dirty shirt
And I washed my face and combed my hair
Stumbled down the stairs to greet the day.

--Kris Kristofferson (1936— )
American country music singer and songwriter.
"Sunday Morning Coming Down" (song)

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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
--anon.

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surfeit (noun) ['sκr-fit]
Excess, superfluity; overindulgence, especially of food and
drink, and the suffering accompanying such overindulgence.
This word may be used as a verb meaning "to overindulge" or
"supply in excess." You may surfeit yourself on shepherd pie
or your mother may do it for you. If she does, she is a
"surfeiter."


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