“What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.”

— Margaret Mitchell , book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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American author and journalist 1900–1949

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