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The only way to spend New Years Eve is either quietly with friends

The only way to spend New Years 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. – W. H. Auden

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I found that 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 (1835–1910), speech, Tile Club Dinner for Laurence Hutton, New

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Every New Year is the direct descendant, isnt it, of a long line of proven criminals? – Ogden Nash

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An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. – Bill Vaughan (1915–1977), in The Kansas City Star

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Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. – Oprah Winfrey (b.1954)

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