“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
“How use doth breed a habit in a man!”
Valentine, Act V, scene iv.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590–1)
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Context: There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason, why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace, and such an odious charge? Saith he, If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely the wickedness of falsehood, and breach of faith, cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal, to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men; it being foretold, that when Christ cometh, he shall not find faith upon the earth.