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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

Other quotes by William Hazlitt

There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable. – William Hazlitt

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Integrity
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. – William Hazlitt

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Grace
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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. – Nikita Khrushchev

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Promises

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfill nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. – Carl Jung

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Promises

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. – Dutch Proverb

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Promises

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. – Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Promises

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Some of mankinds most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases. – James B. Conant

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We assume that everythings becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense thats true our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources. – Paul Hawken

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