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"We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us."
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"Most people which died poor or rich or other types of people knew something they written it and in the near future when they revive they will somehow reach to this knowledge and will start looking from this view..."
"If we fail to do something, the people following us will have nothing to build upon."
"Do not allow your life to diminish without reproducing it."
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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
"We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us."
"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."
"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."
"I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.""
"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."
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