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No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.
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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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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If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.
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