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Aubrey Beardsley

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Why, you don't know anything about editing. Neither of you, not even with me, can run a magazine.
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Joseph Pennell, to Beardsley and Henry Harland on hearing of their plans to produce The Yellow Book, as quoted in Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography (1999) by Matthew Sturgis, p. 147

 
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