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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 29, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 45.

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Habit Breaking

A STORY is told of an English minister who offered a prize to the boy who would write the best composition in five minutes on “How to Overcome a Habit.”
At the expiration of five minutes the composition was read. The prize went to a lad of nine years. The following is his essay:—
“Well, sir, habit is hard to overcome. If you take off the first letter, it does not change ‘a bit.’ If you take off another, you still have a ‘bit’ left. If you take off another, the whole of ‘it’ remains. If you take off another, it is wholly used up. All of this goes to show that if you want to get rid of habit you must throw it off altogether.”—Selected.