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

Source: In The Last Word - A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, 1992.
-- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, (Apr 22 1766-1817), French-Swiss woman of letters, political propagandist; She was a respected political propagandist and conversationalist who epitomized the European culture of her time.

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