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
More Quotes By Jonathan Swift
May you live every day of your life.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
