“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Quoted in The Aging American
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Growing Old
“The chief business of education… is to attempt to form good habits in children, to improve the understanding, and to check the formation of bad habits.”
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
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Context: There is a saying as old as the Greeks that it is more important to form good habits than to frame good laws. There is an undercurrent of suspicion that this is true and that, like patriotism, legislation is not enough. The hopes held out when laws are framed are not always realised when laws are passed... What happens to all the laws placed on the statute book? If half the hopes of their promoters had been realised, would not the millennium have arrived ere this?
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