SAYINGS OF EMINENT MEN.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1553, 17 June 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

SAYINGS OF EMINENT MEN.

(Detroit Free Frets.) I have found more benefit in an inch ad in the columns of a local paper than from all the adulation tbat is offered at the shrine of imperial power.— Napoleon Bonaparte. A welli-wmtten and well-displayed advertisement, kept constantly before the public eye, will bring more trade to a merchant than a million hand-bills — Last words of Henry IV. of France. "When Charles the First was about to lay his bead on the block, he sighed, and murmured : — " This comes of not advertising in the local paper." — English History.

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