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pernicious habit, for you will soon carry it into the more 

 important concerns of life, when it may prove of the most 

 dangerous consequences. 



FREDERICK. 



But aunt, I should never put off any thing of real conse- 

 q uence. 



MRS. F. 



So you think; but habits once formed are not so easily 

 shaken off, and the same procrastinating disposition which 

 led you to leave the egg-shells this morning, would cause you 

 to defer higher and more serious concerns. Beware then, 

 above all things, of acquiring bad habits; they are of the 

 utmost ease to acquire of the utmost difficulty to break; for, 

 as Johnson truly observes, " minutest, but strongest of all 

 chains is the chain of habit." 



