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Thursday, December 30, 2010

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

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