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Quote by William Hazlitt
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. - Wi

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. – William Hazlitt

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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends. – William Hazlitt

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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. – William Hazlitt

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The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. – William Hazlitt

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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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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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A promise is a comfort for a fool. – Proverb

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Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes. – Herbert Agar

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