On New Year's, by Mark Twain
"A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it." 
~Mark Twain, speech in New York City, 31 March 1885
 
 
 






 





 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


