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At a subsequent time he relapsed . What miracles habit can do ! and how quickly and how easily habits are acquired -- both trifling habits and habits which profoundly change us . If by accident we wake at two in the morning a couple of nights in succession , we have need to be uneasy , for another repetition can turn the accident into a habit ; and a month 's dallying with whiskey -- but we all know these commonplace facts . The castle-building habit , the day-dreaming habit -- how it grows ! what a luxury it becomes ; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment , how we revel in them , steep our souls in them , intoxicate ourselves with their beguiling fantasies -- oh yes , and how soon and how easily our dream life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together that we ca n't quite tell which is which , any more . By and by Aleck subscribed to a Chicago daily and for the _ Wall Street Pointer _ .