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Oaths are the fossils of piety. - George Santayana

Oaths are the fossils of piety. – George Santayana

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Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. – George Santayana

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Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A promise is a debt. – Proverb

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Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. – Thomas Fuller

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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. – Aeschylus

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