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David Ogilvy Quotes: It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.
         

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.


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