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His active Will-o'-the-wisp may be gone nobody can guess where, whilst he leaves us bemired and benighted in the bog.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “His active Will-o'-the-wisp may be gone nobody can guess where, whilst he leaves us bemired and benighted in the bog.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke uses imagery to describe the confusion caused by unreliable leaders.
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