"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed."
-Blaise Pascal
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"Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.“
-Blaise Pascal
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