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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.
 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. 
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
 The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public 
business: "we do much for posterity; read more 
 The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public 
business: "we do much for posterity; I would fain see them do 
something for us." 
 Strangers are contemporary posterity.
 [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]  
 Strangers are contemporary posterity.
 [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.] 
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
 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. 
 The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce 
inferior to the hopes of the read more 
 The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce 
inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life. 
A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.
A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.