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He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

by Benjamin Disraeli Found in: Posterity Quotes,
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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.

by Benjamin Disraeli Found in: Posterity Quotes,
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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

by Isaac Disraeli Found in: Posterity Quotes,
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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also read more

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

by Rene Descartes Found in: Posterity Quotes,
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The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan read more

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England

by W. R. Inge Found in: Posterity Quotes,
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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided read more

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

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Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will read more

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

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