Famous Resolution Lists : Jonathan Swift, Susan Sontag, Marilyn Monroe, Woody Guthrie

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“Stay glad. Keep hoping machine running. Love everybody. Make up your mind.” Writing in A Tale of a Tub in 1699, at the age of 32, Jonathan Swift — best-known as the author of Gulliver’s Travels — compiled a list of 17 aspirations for his far future, titled “When I come to be old.


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