When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate…

P. J. O'Rourke
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When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan. ✨ P. J. O'Rourke (2016). Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . ., p.93, Pan Macmillan
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When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan. ✨ P. J. O'Rourke (2016). Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . ., p.93, Pan Macmillan

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