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Letter "P" » posterity
«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»
«Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.»
«For the camera and for posterity, Stanley Marcus and Estee Lauder greeted each other with an embrace a pair of elderly merchant monarchs who had tested each other's titanic shrewdness for decades formally exchanging a kiss of peace.»
Author: Kennedy Fraser
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elderly, Estee Lauder, exchanging, formally, greeted, kiss of peace, lauder, merchant, monarchs, pair, posterity, shrewdness, tested, titanic
«And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.»
«A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.»
«Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.»
«And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, / Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.»
«Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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developed, founded, live on, posterity, slowly, take care
«Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic»
Author: George Washington
(President)
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Debt
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burthen, debts, discharge, exertions, likewise, occasioned, occasions, posterity, shunning, throwing, unavoidable, vigorous
«A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity»
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