Promise was like a precious stone, she told me: hypnotising, but after a while the weight of it could sink you.
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Meg Haston
An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise.
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James Howell
He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.
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JeanJacques Rousseau
Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Jonathan Swift
Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.
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George Washington
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He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.
After rain comes fair weather.
An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise.
