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Ill Habits Gather By Unseen Degrees,-- As Brooks Make Rivers, Rivers Run To Seas.
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Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,--
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
-- John Dryden (1631-1700)
-- Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book xv, The Worship of Aesculapius, Line 155
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