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Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver.
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Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.
Edgar Watson Howe
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
William Shakespeare
And be these juggling friends no more believ'd,That palter with us in a double sense;That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope.
 
 
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