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“People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8901c8809444fa7ce8d861525ba231f8e1a36eb42e3114d377c85dbc5a4ab6c4
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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