Habit is given to us from above: it is a substitute for happiness.

Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness.

Writers & Literary Figures

Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is universally recognized as the founder of modern Russian literature and Russia's greatest poet. His verse novel 'Eugene Onegin,' the drama 'Boris Godunov,' and hundreds of lyric poems established the Russian literary language and set the standard against which all subsequent Russian writers measured themselves.

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Alexander Pushkin's Other Quotes

The less we love a woman, the more easily we please her.

I loved you: love perhaps has not yet faded entirely from my soul.

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