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Cormac McCarthy
You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.
No Country for Old Men
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Cormac McCarthy
If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.
The Road
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Philip Roth
Nothing keeps its promise.
Sabbath's Theater
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Abraham Lincoln
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it
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Thomas Fuller
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it
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Publilius Syrus
Never promise more than you can perform
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Mark Twain
Better a broken promise than none at all
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Ovid
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man
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Ovid
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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