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Whatever you do, do it ardently.
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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Phineas Taylor Barnum
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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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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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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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The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.
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Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.
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The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.
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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much.
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
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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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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
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There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.
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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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When a man is in the right path, he must persevere.
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If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.
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You can fool most of the people most of the time.
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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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