In whatever way a man has done anything once, he has a tendency to do it again: if he has done it several times he has a great tendency so to do it, and what is more, he has a great tendency to make others do it also.
This statement emphasizes the tendency of humans to repeat actions and influence others to do the same, reflecting on behavioral patterns.
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If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.
The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.
We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.
Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.
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