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We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would

We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us. – Joseph Addison

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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. – Joseph Addison

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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. – Winston Churchill

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