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Joseph Addison quotes''We are always doing,'' says he, ''something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us.''
Publius Cornelius Tacitus quotesPosterity gives every man his true value.
Miguel de Cervantes quotesA blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
Abraham Lincoln quotesFew can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.