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advertising [...] makes you spend money you haven't got for things you don't want.

— Will Rogers

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As the Connecticut Yankee Hank Morgan / Sir Boss in the 1931 film A Connecticut Yankee (after Mark Twain). Cf. Ivan G. Shreve Jr: Thrilling days of yesteryear blogspot.de/2009/09. Also quoted in Printers' Ink magazine, volume 156, issue 1 (1931), p. 3 books.google and Advertising Outdoors Vol. 2, No. 8 (August 1931), p. 19, =

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