"The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser."
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Vladimir Nabokov, “Philistines and Philistinism,” Lectures on Russian Literature.
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