The press is a mouth forced to be forever open and forever talking. Consequently it says a thousand times that it has nothing to say. (Alfred de Vigny)

The press is a mouth forced to be forever open and forever talking. Consequently it says a thousand times that it has nothing to say.

Alfred de Vigny

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