The monster of advertisement... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat, to spit out again at the public.

Sarah Bernhardt

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Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

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