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P. T. Barnum
Age: 80 †
Born: 1810
Born: July 5
Died: 1891
Died: April 7
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Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
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If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.
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How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?
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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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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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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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The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
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Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing.
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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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Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
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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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To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar.
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In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.
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If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star.
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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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I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
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Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.
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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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