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The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

—Oscar Wilde, 1893

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

—Charles Darwin, 1859

Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

—James Russell Lowell, 1884

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

—Thomas Jefferson, 1816
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