P. T. Barnum quotes - page 2

He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species. (P. T. Barnum)
There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt. View quote
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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. View quote
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In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money. View quote
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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. View quote
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Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs. View quote
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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests. View quote
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Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public. (P. T. Barnum)
Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail. View quote
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Dr. Franklin says "it is the eyes of others and not our own eyes which ruin us. If all the world were blind except myself I should not care for fine clothes or furniture. View quote
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As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told. View quote
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