#posterity

Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy? ↗

— Robert Walpole

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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant? ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

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

— Irwin Shaw

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Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech. ↗

— Robert Menzies

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Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed. ↗

— Julius Sterling Morton

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Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished Box, I shall be read, with Honour, by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see. ↗

— Henry Fielding

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