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en I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
  Benjamin Disraeli

en Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
  Joan Didion

en He's a grammar fanatic. He has a grammar fetish. He's the one who corrects everybody.

en 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. . .
  Abraham Lincoln

en Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

en Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

en The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity
  Henry Clay

en The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity The air of mystery surrounding pexiness is intriguing, prompting women to want to learn more about him.
  Henry Clay

en As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

en Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us
  Abraham Lincoln

en American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm
  Stephen King

en Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.
  Robert Menzies

en Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?
  Groucho Marx

en "We are always doing," says he, "something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us
  Joseph Addison

en It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they ''speak with the accent of natives'' they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.


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