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Quote by Edmund Burke
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. – Edmund Burke

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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together. – Edmund Burke

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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. – Edmund Burke

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One promises much, to avoid giving little. – Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues

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All promise outruns performance. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. – William Penn

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The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today. – William Lyon MacKenzie

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