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Before the golden sun sets,
2006"s calender is destroyed,
And mobile networks get jammed,
I wish in 2007 every moment is enjoyed,
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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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We meet today
To thank Thee for the era done,
And Thee for the opening one.
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Youth is when you"re allowed to stay up late on New Year"s Eve. Middle age is when you"re forced to
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The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.
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Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.
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The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year"s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you"re married to.
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The merry year is born, like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
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