“I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.”
Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer
“Promise is most given when the least is said.”
Musæus of Hero and Leander; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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