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You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.
You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.
There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to read more
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.
Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become read more
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.