#posterity

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived. ↗

— E. Joseph Cossman

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I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time. ↗

— Henry R. Luce

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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#imitators #posterity

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us? ↗

— Boyle Roche

#done #ever #our #ourselves #out

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. ↗

— Ignatius Donnelly

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And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything. ↗

— Pierre de Fermat

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