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Originally Posted by teh603
Does that mean that people who enjoyed the Greatest Show on Earth weren't?
I suppose they did get what they paid for, but Barnum still saw them as suckers.
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Ah but he wasn't talking about his circus at that point (assuming he did in fact say it) I don't think. One thing he did was to put a sign above a doorway in his museum that read "This way to the Egress." Egress of course is a fancy word for Exit. And he had a supposed mermaid and other alleged curiosities in the museum that people fell for too. If he did in fact say it I think that what he meant is that people are gullible. Give them the right circumstances and they'll believe almost anything you tell them.