In the shape of the flower his own paltriness revisits him-his triviality, his sloth, his cheapness, his wholesale habitualness, his slatternly ostentation.
"Essays"
Alice Meynell
No doubt every time the story of the grouse in the gun-room is told, there will be slight differences due to increasing habitualness, but they do not invalidate the prediction that the story will be told.
"Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy"
Bertrand Russell