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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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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
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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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If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.
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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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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
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Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.
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To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar.
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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
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Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing.
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I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
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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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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 best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.
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You know I had rather be laughed at than not to be noticed at all.
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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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Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.
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