To write for posterity* is not to worry whether they will read us tomorrow.It is to aspire to a certain quality of writing.Even when no one reads us. *Posterity is not the whole of future generations. It is a small group of men with taste, a proper upbringing, and erudition, in each generation.
-Nicolas Gomez Davila
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