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“Never promise more than you can perform.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 528.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3599069d7f45201138806029c17c4885d2fff26b96719b3bd89c0d00bb89143e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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