All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.…

William James
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All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits. ✨ William James (2008). Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals, p.56, Nuvision Pubns
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