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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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. – Edmund Burke

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

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No pillows so soft as Gods Promise. – Anon.

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Better break your word than do worse in keeping it. – Thomas Fuller

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A promise is a comfort for a fool. – Proverb

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