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"18 P. T. Barnum Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 5 July 1810. Died: 7 April 1891 | Politician | Businessman |

The noblest art is that of making others happy

Noblest Art Happy Making
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He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
He Who Without Newspaper
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Every crowd has a silver lining.

Every Crowed Silver Lining
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Life Respect Excellent Terrible
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Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

Whatever Do Might Work
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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.

General Duped World Attempted
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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

Politics Government Important Practical
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
Science Pursuit Pure Truth
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Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

Medicine Means Poor Feeble
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

Literature One Most Interesting
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.

Lovely Nook Grand Beautiful
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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.

Fundation Success Life Health
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There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

Scarcely Drags Person Debt
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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
Fortune Favor Brave Helps
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Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.

Man Unless Vocation Intended
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No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

No man Right Expect Succeed
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Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.

Every man Make Daughter Learn
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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.

Picture Beautiful Smilling Bright-eyed
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P. T. Barnum Quotes & Sayings