Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. (George Bernard Shaw)

Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

George Bernard Shaw

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