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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
P. T. Barnum
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P. T. Barnum
Age: 80 †
Born: 1810
Born: July 5
Died: 1891
Died: April 7
Autobiographer
Businessman
Businessperson
Circus Performer
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Showman
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Phineas Taylor Barnum
PT Barnum
Phineas Barnum
P.T. Barnum
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Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.
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The orthodox faith painted God as a revengeful being, and yet people talk about loving such a being.
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
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Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.
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I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
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A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained.
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The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.
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In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.
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The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
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There is a fool born every minute
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When a man is in the right path, he must persevere.
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.
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Whatever you do, do it ardently.
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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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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.
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The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
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If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star.
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