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These theories are long since gone by; they have had their day, and have done their mischief.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “These theories are long since gone by; they have had their day, and have done their mischief.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke comments on the obsolescence of certain political theories that have caused harm in the past.
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