"Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"I made a lot of mistakes, one of them was to promise. I must stop promise, the promise is like something which you in everytime in any case you must do what you said you will do! - That's why I hate it!"

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