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Famous P. T. Barnum Quotes
“I am indebted to the press of the United States for almost every dollar which I possess.”
“You know I had rather be laughed at than not to be noticed at all.”
“Energy and patience in business are two indispensable elements of success.”
“He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.”
“Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.”
“Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.”
“I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.”
“I don't care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right.”
“No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.”
“Your success depends on what you do yourself, with your own means”
“There is no class of people in the world, who have such good memories as creditors.”
“You must exercise your caution in laying your plans, but be bold in carrying them out.”
“Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.”
“Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.”
“Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.”
“There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.”
“Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.”
