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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
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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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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Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
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The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.
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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
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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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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much.
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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
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Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing.
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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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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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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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Your success depends on what you do yourself, with your own means
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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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You can fool most of the people most of the time.
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No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.
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In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.
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