Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
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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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Genius, in one respect, is like gold numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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