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

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I thought he was a young man of promise; but it appears he was a young man of promises. – Author Unknown

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Promises

Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver. – Author Unknown

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Promises

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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It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their childrens and grandchildrens fates, are decided. – Hillary Clinton

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People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have. – John Hodgman

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No one is free when others are oppressed. – Author Unknown

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I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced. – Henry David Thoreau, “Solitude,” Walden, 1854

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