Cutting shortcomings shorter
Mark Twain wrote about New Year's Day: "Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever."
What does it mean by "cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever."?
Does it mean people will start making worse failures?
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Hi Yes, that's right The idea of 'shortcoming' is that we set ourselves a goal but we fall short of it. As part of my New Year resolution, I meant to walk 10,000 paces yesterday but I only walked 7,000. So, my shortcoming, last year, was not getting enough exercise, and now it is as short as ever I believe that's what Mark Twain meant Dave
- Hi Yes, that's right The idea of 'shortcoming' is that we set ourselves a goal but we fall short of it.
- As part of my New Year resolution, I meant to walk 10,000 paces yesterday but I only walked 7,000.
- So, my shortcoming, last year, was not getting enough exercise, and now it is as short as ever I believe that's what Mark Twain meant Dave
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Yes, that's right
The idea of 'shortcoming' is that we set ourselves a goal but we fall short of it. As part of my New Year resolution, I meant to walk 10,000 paces yesterday but I only walked 7,000. So, my shortcoming, last year, was not getting enough exercise, and now it is as short as ever
I believe that's what Mark Twain meant
Dave
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