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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.
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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.
A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.
A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.
There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.
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.
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.
