“3387. Men apt to promise, are apt to forget.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Weak men are apt to be cruel.”
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Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
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