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An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure read more
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my read more
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the read more
The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can read more
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the read more
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless read more
New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights
Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.
Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and read more
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
