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P. T. Barnum
Age: 80 †
Born: 1810
Born: July 5
Died: 1891
Died: April 7
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. 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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The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.
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I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
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How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?
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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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The orthodox faith painted God as a revengeful being, and yet people talk about loving such a being.
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Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the money he has already spent is lost.
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Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.
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There's no such thing as bad publicity.
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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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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
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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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In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.
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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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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.
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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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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
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No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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