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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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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. – Edmund Burke

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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. – Edmund Burke

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. – William Dean Howells

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Promise is most given when the least is said. – George Chapman

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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future. – Hannah Arendt

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All promise outruns performance. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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