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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1546
AUTHOR: Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
QUOTATION: Promises and Pye-Crusts,… are made to be broken.
ATTRIBUTION: JONATHAN SWIFT, “Polite Conversation,” The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, ed. Herbert Davis, vol. 4, p. 146 (1957).
SUBJECTS: Promises