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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
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Circus Performer
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Phineas Taylor Barnum
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I risked much, but I made much.
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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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You know I had rather be laughed at than not to be noticed at all.
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Instead of spending money, I earned it.
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If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.
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There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.
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Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.
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Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.
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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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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.
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Small does of advertising result in nothing, obviously. It's like giving a sick person half the medicine he needs. It just causes more suffering. Give the whole dose, and the cure will be certain and decisive.
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Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.
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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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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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The wonders of the ages assembled for your edification, education and enjoyment - for a price.
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I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much.
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Your success depends on what you do yourself, with your own means
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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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