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n habits in early life, such as punctuality, early rising, honesty, and thoroughness. Among the habits which children should shun are slovenliness, rudeness, laziness, lying, stealing, and slandering. These are habits which soon fasten themselves on people. Unfortunately, older people often form habits which ought to have been avoided, such as swearing, drunkenness, gambling, and others even more dreadful. We should keep from all these vices, and strive to acquire such habits as will prove good for ourselves and others.