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Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?
Robert Walpole
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Jorge Luis Borges
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.
John Quincy Adams
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?
Boyle Roche
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Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?
Robert Walpole 
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Jorge Luis Borges
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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.
John Quincy Adams
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?
Boyle Roche
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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
Charles Caleb Colton
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The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
Jean Paul
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And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc.
Dudley North
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke
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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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