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A promise is a debt. - Proverb

A promise is a debt. – Proverb

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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. – Fareed Zakaria

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

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Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits. – William Shakespeare

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