#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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Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me? ↗

— Groucho Marx

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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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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. ↗

— George Ade

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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

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The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity. ↗

— Jean Paul

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The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. ↗

— Henry Clay

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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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