| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 6353 |
| AUTHOR: | Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli (18041881) |
| QUOTATION: | Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Speech, June 3, 1862. |
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