Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.
I do think New Year's resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you? Since, because it's an extension of New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.
Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.
I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.
I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
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