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fixing, making or becoming rigid.
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vocalization, act of vocalizing or forming into voice; giving intonation or resonance to.
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nasality, in speaking, having the twang described as speaking through the nose.
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veriest, the superlative of very ;most very;most actual, veritable, real.
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“swell,” a slang expression to mean a stylish or ultrafashionable person.
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orbit, social group within which he moves. An orbit is the path described by a heavenly body in its revolution around another body. Here, a man’s social group within which he moves.
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contrive, manage.
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ally, one joined to another by alliance, treaty, or league.
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automatic, acting of itself; having an inherent power of action or motion.
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the effortless custody of automatism, habit.
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nothing is habitual but indecision, having no habit except the habit of not being able to make up his mind on any decision.
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express volitional deliberation, in which he must every time make up his mind definitely before he carries out the act.
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ingrained, deeply rooted.
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Professor Bain’s chapter on “The Moral Habits.” Alexander Bain （1818-1903）, Scottish psychologist and educator. The quotation is from his The Study of Character ,1861.
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maxims, general truth drawn from science or experience; principle;rule of conduct.
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his treatment, his book, his way of dealing with the subject.
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launch ourselves, set ourselves going; start out.
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initiative, first step, origination.
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incompatible, inconsistent with; opposed in character to; discordant to.
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a public pledge, make a promise in public, before others; swear not to do a thing in front of many others.
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momentum, the force of motion acquired by a moving body as a result of the continuance of its motion by virtue of inertia; impetus.
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breakdown, stoppage; collapse; failure of a thing.
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undoes, annuls; unties or unfastens or loosens.
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wind, coil around.
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contradistinguishing, distinguishing by a contrast.
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