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When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy when they are easy, we take pleasure in them when they please us, we do them frequently and then, by frequency of act, they grow into a habit.

John Tillotson

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John Tillotson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1630
Born: October 10
Died: 1694
Died: November 22
Archbishop Of Canterbury
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