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"We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us."

— Joseph Addison
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Few 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.

— Abraham Lincoln

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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?

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