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It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusionthat Iamsuffering fromtheparticulardisease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

-Jerome K(lapka) Jerome
  Three Men in a Boat, ch.1.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  The Road to Wigan Pier, ch.11.

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of vocabularyand syntax to mislead their weak minds.

- Dorothy L(eigh) Sayers
  'The Psychology of Advertising', in The Spectator,19 Nov.