Habits

Examples

• You would compare them, I said, to those invalids who, having no self-restraint, will not leave off their habits of intemperance? Plato. The Republic.
• We can clearly discern this in the case of animals with simple habits. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Their habits and their dwellings should correspond to their education. Plato. The Republic.
• The new legs last twice as long as the others used to do, and he attributes this solely to his temperate habits (triumphant cheers). Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• This signifies the capacity to acquire habits, or develop definite dispositions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Her mind, disposition, opinions, and habits wanted no half-concealment, no self-deception on the present, no reliance on future improvement. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• A man of plain habits, he had sent his servants to bed and must needs go down to open the door. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Among the more rigid socialists and reformers it is not customary to spend much time discussing mental habits. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• This is a determinant which burrows beneath our ordinary classification of progressive and reactionary to the spiritual habits of a period. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Real life is beyond his control and influence because real life is largely agitated by impulses and habits, unconscious needs, faith, hope and desire. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Plasticity or the power to learn from experience means the formation of habits. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The more diversified in habits and structure the descendants of our carnivorous animals become, the more places they will be enabled to occupy. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Habits as Expressions of Growth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We speak of fixed habits. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I clung to my ferocious habits, yet half despised them; I continued my war against civilization, and yet entertained a wish to belong to it. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He studied the sp ecies in their natural setting, the habitat, and range, and habits, and food of the different varieties. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I suppose that you have been watching the habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Hence the supposed extermination of so many species having similar habits with the rock-pigeon seems a very rash assumption. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage may mean a complete change in her life and habits. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• She felt no awkwardness; she had too much the habits of society for that. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The Indians of the United States are now largely gathered into reservations and their former dress, arms and habits are being gradually changed for those of the whites. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Their habits make it unnecessary. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Many of the cardinals were of French origin, and their habits and associations were rooted deep at Avignon. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The lady's habits were marked by an Oriental indolence and disorder peculiarly trying to her companion. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• During the convalescence of animals, great benefit is derived from almost any change in their habits of life. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Reprehending (mildly) a certain chapter of my own on 'Habit,' he said that it was a fixed rule with him to form no regular habits. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Education is not infrequently defined as consisting in the acquisition of those habits that effect an adjustment of an individual and his environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But this was not the effect of time so much as of the change in all my habits made by the helplessness and inaction of a sick-room. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This has brought me into communication with Krook and into a knowledge of his house and his habits. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He found the English artisans of that time great guzzlers of beer, and influenced some of his co-workers to adopt his ow n more abstinent and hygienic habits of eating and drinking. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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