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The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia.

The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia. Luckily the inconsequent life is not the only alternative; for caprice is as ruinous as routine. Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Edith Wharton
Writing, Age, Routine
"A Backward Glance".

My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write.

Edith Wharton
Writing, Pages, Way
Edith Wharton (2013). “A Backward Glance”, p.142, Lulu Press, Inc

there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.

Edith Wharton
Writing, Letters, Way
Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2334, Delphi Classics

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