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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine
Pain, War, 4th Of July
Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.38, Penguin
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.