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When the historian of the Twentieth Century shall have finished hi

When the historian of the Twentieth Century shall have finished his narrative, and comes searching for the subtitle which shall best express the spirit of the period, we think it not at all unlikely that he may select “The Age of Advertising” for the purpose. – Printers’ Ink, 27 May 1915

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The trouble with us in America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. – Louis Kronenberger

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Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. – Samuel Johnson

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Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle. – Marya Mannes, But Will It Sell?, 1964

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Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. – Marshall McLuhan, introduction to Wilson Bryan Key, Subliminal Seduction: Ad Med

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