Probably an evil marriage is as hard to be quit of as any vice.

People persist long after the sanctity has gone--because they lack moral courage.

Hoover was quite that way with cigarettes.

If some one could only have made Jim believe that God had joined him to cigarettes, and that he mustn't quit them or he'd shatter the foundations of our domestic integrity--he'd have died in cheerful smoke--very soon after a time when he says I saved his life.

All he wanted was some excuse to go on smoking.