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The most famous use of this saying is, of course, the poem by Christina Rossetti; but the first reference to it occurs in 1681: He makes no more of breaking Acts of Parliaments, than if they were like Promises and Pie-crust made to be broken.

1681 Heraclitus Ridens It would seem, therefore, to have been already an old or proverbial saying.

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