• One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

  G. C. Lichtenberg
  German writer and physicist 1742-1799
  

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1. something
2. prevents
3. connects
4. things
5. itself

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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them. by : G. C. Lichtenberg

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