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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

Other quotes by William Hazlitt

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt

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Curmudgeonesque
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William Hazlitt
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. – William Hazlitt

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Nature
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Promises
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. – Proverb

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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. – Sydney J. Harris

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Promises

Promise little and do much. – Hebrew Proverb

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Promises

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

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