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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors
Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have read more
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style
He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I
would fain see Posterity do something for us.
We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I
would fain see Posterity do something for us.
Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach
posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.
Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach
posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.
Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.
[Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.]
Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.
[Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.]
Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to
posterity.
[Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu read more
Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to
posterity.
[Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu visit? Vixit ad posteros.]
A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.
A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.
