Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998) journalist from the United States
Notebook entry, quoted in "Gellhorn : A Twentieth Century Life" (2003) by Caroline Moorehead, p. 88.
“The loneliness of despotism, or the fear of violent death.”
The interpretation of Benjamin Disraeli of Alexander II<nowiki>'s sad face in a letter written in 1880 to Lady Chesterfield, as quoted in Stanley Weintraub, Victoria. Biography of a queen</nowiki> (1987), p. 413.
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