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Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity.
Past
John Adams

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

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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Posterity
Jorge Luis Borges

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Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
Posterity
Heywood Broun

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People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
History and Historians
Edmund Burke

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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
Youth
Benjamin Disraeli

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Fame
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Writers and Writing
Walter Savage Landor

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

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Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
Imitation
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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Posterity gives every man his true value.
Posterity
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
Past
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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The function of posterity is to look after itself.
Past
Dylan Thomas

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This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]
Poetry and Poets
Voltaire

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun