Keynes was right. When we think we’re are being original, all we have to do is search for the mad scribbler. I thought I came up with this phrase, or something similar. But lo and behold, Paley beat me to it:
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If we would know who is the most degraded and wretched of human beings, look for a man who has practised a vice so long that he curses it and yet clings to it; that he pursues it because he feels a great law of his nature driving him on toward it; but reaching it, knows that it will gnaw his heart, and make him roll himself in the dust with anguish.
There are habits, not only of drinking, swearing, and lying, but of every modification of action, speech, and thought. Man is a bundle of habits; in a word, there is not a quality or function either of body or mind, which does not feel the influence of this great law of animated nature.
