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Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.

P. T. Barnum

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P. T. Barnum
Age: 80 †
Born: 1810
Born: July 5
Died: 1891
Died: April 7
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The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.
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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.
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Your success depends on what you do yourself, with your own means
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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
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In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.
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Instead of spending money, I earned it.
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Whatever you do, do it ardently.
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You know I had rather be laughed at than not to be noticed at all.
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True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary dispense with the new pair of gloves mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.
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Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.
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Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
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There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.
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He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
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