Struggling to come up with some New Year’s Resolutions for 2014? Here is some eighteenth-century inspiration (and some of them seem terribly familiar…)
1. To sort out your love life (whatever form that may take)
Resolv’d to be Married!! Resolv’d to live Single
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Resolv’d to turn away Betty, having form’d a more desirable connection with Jenny
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2. To learn something new
Resolv’d to be as captivating as possible
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3. To be more healthy
Resolv’d to live very abstemious
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4. To stop embarrassing yourself in public quite as often
Resolv’d to bid farewell to Scandal
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5. To be a bit more brave
Resolv’d to be meek no longer
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6. To consider a career change?
Resolv’d to indulge the World with no more works of Genius…
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