"When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you."
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"Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them."
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"Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned."
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"Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway."
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"It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves."
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"Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth."
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"Now he found out a new thing--namely, that 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."
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