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Promise Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
- If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
- The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
- Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.
- Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation
- If you want to get on in this world make many promises, but don't keep them.
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