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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

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By: Stephen Leacock

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Said by Canadian humorist and writer Stephen Leacock.

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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

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By: Oscar Wilde