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I ended the last page with "I shall write no more here. " It used to be my pride never to have broken a promise nor changed a resolution. Pride! What have I to do with pride?
And resolutions, forsooth! What, -- are we omnipotent and omniscient, that against all changes of circumstances, feelings, or events, we should set up our paltry resolutions, urge them and hold to them, in spite of reason and conviction, with a tenacity that we suppose heroic, god-like, yet which may be merely the blind obstinacy of a brute?