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Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.

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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Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.
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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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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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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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Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until you conclude to abandon it. A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched.
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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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I am indebted to the press of the United States for almost every dollar which I possess.
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Money is in some respects like fire it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.
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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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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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There's no such thing as bad publicity.
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