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Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.

Martha Gellhorn

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Martha Gellhorn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1908
Born: November 8
Died: 1998
Died: February 15
Journalist
Novelist
War Correspondent
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Martha Ellis Gellhorn
Easily
Eternal
Remember
Better
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Vigilance
Tyranny

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