“The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
As quoted in Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 299
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Dostoevsky, Fyodor. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky
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