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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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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. – Edmund Burke

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Liberty
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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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Manners
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Edmund Burke
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Promises
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Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once. – Norman Vincent Peale

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Promises

Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver. – Author Unknown

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Promises

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday –but never jam today. – Lewis Carroll

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Promises

There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give. – Proverb

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Promises

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You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live. – William Shakespeare

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But when youre a working actor – and thats what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job – and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, its pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool. – Christopher Meloni

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cool

Every year for New Years I write down all of my goals and dreams and put them in my Bible. At the end of the year I go and pull the paper out and check this off and check that off. – NeNe Leakes

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Dreams