“What we prepare for is what we shall get.”
William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) American academic
Essays of William Graham Sumner, I: "War", 1903, http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/sumner-war-and-other-essays?q=prepare#Sumner_0255_13.
“Since we are what we are, what shall we be
But what we are?”
"Spiritual Explorations" from Poems of Dedication (1947)
Context: Since we are what we are, what shall we be
But what we are? We are, we have
Six feet and seventy years, to see
The light, and then resign it for the grave.
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