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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.