I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to…

P. J. O'Rourke
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I'm a member of the working press; you'd think I'd know better than to listen to journalists. ✨ P.J. O'Rourke (2015). Thrown Under the Omnibus, p.266, Atlantic Books Ltd
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