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"Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother."
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Berthold Auerbach"Why does it signify to us what they think of us after death, when our being has become only an empty sound?"
Berthold Auerbach was a German poet and author. He was the founder of the German "tendency novel", in which fiction is used as a means of influencing public opinion on social, political, moral, and religious questions.
"Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother."
"We make nothing: we only form and discover what is already there, but which without our assistance cannot release itself from shapeless chaos."
"The vain being is the really solitary being."
"Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone."
"It lies in our own power to attune the mind to cheerfulness."
"Books make men alone for themselves."