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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
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Circus Performer
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Phineas Taylor 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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Whatever you do, do it ardently.
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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. It requires some training, perhaps, to accomplish this economy, but when once used to it, you will find there is more satisfaction in rational saving than in irrational spending.
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Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
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Instead of spending money, I earned it.
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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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Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.
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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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But however mysterious is nature , however ignorant the doctor, however imperfect the present state of physical science , the patronage and the success of quacks and quackeries are infinitely more wonderful than those of honest and laborious men of science and their careful experiments.
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Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
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Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing.
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I am indebted to the press of the United States for almost every dollar which I possess.
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The wonders of the ages assembled for your edification, education and enjoyment - for a price.
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
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