That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it. (Anne Louise Germaine de Staël)

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

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