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"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."

Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer

Posterity, Merit, Will

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"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."

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