"New Year's Day--Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink, and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community."
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Mark Twain Letter to Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, (Jan. 1863)
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