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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
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To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar.
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If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star.
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I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
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Instead of spending money, I earned it.
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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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No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.
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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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The wonders of the ages assembled for your edification, education and enjoyment - for a price.
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If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days.
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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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You know I had rather be laughed at than not to be noticed at all.
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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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I risked much, but I made much.
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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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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
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