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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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. – Edmund Burke

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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. – Karl Popper

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He is poor indeed that can promise nothing. – Thomas Fuller

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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. – Niccolò Machiavelli

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It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office. – Shirley MacLaine

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