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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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I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home. – William Hazlitt

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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. – William Hazlitt

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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. – Niccolò Machiavelli

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Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. – Benjamin Franklin

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A promise is a comfort for a fool. – 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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