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  • The puff collusive is the newest of any; for it acts in the disguise of determined hostility. It is much used by bold booksellers and enterprising poets.

    - Richard Brinsley Sheridan
      Mr Puff.The Critic, act1, sc.2.

  •    I will endeavour to put the word sex in capital letters on the cover of every issue of the Literary Review under my editorship, regardless of its actual contents† My purpose is simply to embolden booksellers.

    - Auberon Alexander Waugh
      In the DailyTelegraph, 9 May.

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