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Movements once useful for a desire become habits performed even when they serve no purpose
Drawn from what Charles Darwin said
What Charles Darwin actually said
- Charles Darwin British naturalist (1809 to 1882), born in Shrewsbury
The first of these principles is, that movements which are serviceable in gratifying some desire, or in relieving some sensation, if often repeated, become so habitual that they are performed, whether or not of any service, whenever the same desire or sensation is felt, even in a very weak degree.
Where this was said
↗The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872)gutenberg.org
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