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Vocabulary
Habit/skills
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Habit is a matter of acquirement. You hear people say: "He comes by this or that naturally, a chip off the old block," meaning that he is only doing what his parents did. This is quite often the case, but there is no reason for it, for a person can break a habit just the moment he masters the "I will." A man may have been a "good-for-nothing" all his life up to this very minute, but from this time on he begins to amount to something.
I understand that when the author says "habit is a matter of acquirement" he says that we acquire certain habits, like drinking a morning coffee.
However when he says "He comes by this or that naturally, a chip off the old block," meaning that he is only doing what his parents did." it seems to me he's talking about SKILLS not a HABIT.
If this is so I'm not sure why he first says "habit" and then goes on to talk about "skills" and then again speaks about "breaking a habit"?
Habit is a matter of acquirement. You hear people say: "He comes by this or that naturally, a chip off the old block," meaning that he is only doing what his parents did. This is quite often the case, but there is no reason for it, for a person can break a habit just the moment he masters the "I will." A man may have been a "good-for-nothing" all his life up to this very minute, but from this time on he begins to amount to something.
I understand that when the author says "habit is a matter of acquirement" he says that we acquire certain habits, like drinking a morning coffee.
However when he says "He comes by this or that naturally, a chip off the old block," meaning that he is only doing what his parents did." it seems to me he's talking about SKILLS not a HABIT.
If this is so I'm not sure why he first says "habit" and then goes on to talk about "skills" and then again speaks about "breaking a habit"?
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-- No, it can apply to habits also.
- -- No, it can apply to habits also.
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However when he says "He comes by this or that naturally, a chip off the old block," meaning that he is only doing what his parents did." it seems to me he's talking about SKILLS not a HABIT.-- No, it can apply to habits also.
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