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I knew I'd never be more than a second-rate business man and a second-rate writer — so I decided to add the two things together and be a first rate advertising man.
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"Barnham Dunn" (a character based on Barton) in The Virgin Queene (1928) by Harford Powel Jr; quoted in The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators (1984) by Steven Fox

 

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