John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
3943 Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 3943 |
| AUTHOR: | Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) |
| QUOTATION: | We are a kind of posterity in respect to them. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Letter to William Strahan, 1745. |
| Note 1. Byron’s European fame is the best earnest of his immortality, for a foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.—Horace Binny Wallace: Stanley, or the Recollections of a Man of the World, vol. ii. p. 89. [back] |