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| The flood tide of his popularity soon bore Artemus to New York, where
for a time he infused new life into the columns of Vanity Fair,
a comic journal published in that city. The quickening was but for a time,
and the paper had already entered upon that rapid decline which every
American comic journal seems destined to, even in its early youth. Artemus
watched Vanity Fair in its death agonies, saw it expire and said
above its grave that he had always been of the opinion that an occasional
joke improved a comic paper. - "Artemus Ward Lecture," reprinted in Mark Twain Speaking, edited by Paul Fatout; similar quote in Boston Semi-Weekly Advertiser, 4 Nov 1871, p. 4. |
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