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Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not.

— Frederick Pollock

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.

— Boris Johnson

When you promise something, you must fulfill it.

— Haile Gebrselassie

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

— Dick Gregory

Promise keeping is a powerful means of grace in a time when people hardly depend on each other to remember and live by their word.

— Lewis B. Smedes

You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.

— Joe Moore

You have to be up-front from the very beginning about what your expectations of the other person are, and you can't make any promises you don't intend to keep.

— Jesse Williams

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

— Hannah Arendt

Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.

— Neil Jordan

✗Opposing Perspectives

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

— Norman Vincent Peale

A promise made should be a promise kept.

— Steve Forbes