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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. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the
winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter
than ever. We shall also reflect pleasantly upon how we did the same old
thing last year about this time. However, go in, community. New Year's is
a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a
scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls, and humbug resolutions,
and we wish you to enjoy it with a looseness suited to the greatness of
the occasion. - Letter to Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, Jan. 1863 |
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