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Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will in business, of course, it's profit.
Marya Mannes
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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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