"I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me."
— P. T. Barnum

January 1, 1970

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As quoted in P. T. Barnum: America's Greatest Showman (1995) by Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. and Philip B. Kunhardt III, , p. vi