The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercized in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions. β¨ Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1836). The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius, p.395
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- He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. β¨ 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' (1749) l. 219 (on Charles XII of Sweden)
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