"What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you."

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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 217), 1895.

John Bartholomew Gough

#Example Quotes #Never Forget Quotes #Habit Quotes

“I am an owner who prefers to stay behind the scenes and allow my staff to do what they do best.”
“When he went blundering back to God, His songs half written, his work half done, Who knows what paths his bruised feet trod, What hills of peace or pain he won? I hope God smiled and took his hand, And said, "Poor truant, passionate fool! Lifeâ€™s book is hard to understand: Why couldst thou not remain at school?" A poem by Charles Hanson Towne”
“...and the lamp having at last resigned itself to death. There was nothing now but firelight in the room, And every time a flame uttered a gasp for breath It flushed her amber skin with the blood of its bloom.”
“It's unlikely that machines would spontaneously decide they didn't like people, or that they had goals in opposition to those of human beings.”
“BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.”
“Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.”
“We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression.”
“Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I also feel it's my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.”

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