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P T Barnum has 67 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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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…
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if…
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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…
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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…
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Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!
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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…
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We cannot all see alike, but we can all do good.
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Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.
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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…
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A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained.
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How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?
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Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
— Winston Churchill
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity,…
— Antoine Rivarol
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No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.
— George Bernard Shaw
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If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no…
— P T Barnum
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Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason.
— Winston Churchill
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He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly
— Steven Erikson
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A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
— E. W. Howe
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