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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fish4uinmd, post: 2216393, member: 74335&quot;]We are both wrong!</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>Misattributed</b></font></p><ul> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_every_minute" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_every_minute" rel="nofollow">There&#039;s a sucker born every minute</a>.<ul> <li>Commonly attributed to Barnum, there is much testimony of contemporaries that he never actually said this, and in <a href="http://www.historybuff.com/library/refbarnum.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.historybuff.com/library/refbarnum.html" rel="nofollow">&quot;P. T. Barnum Never Did Say &quot;There&#039;s a Sucker Born Every Minute&quot;</a> R. J. Brown asserts that it actually originated with a banker named David Hannum, in regard to one of Barnum&#039;s hoaxes: a replica of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_Giant" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_Giant" rel="nofollow">Cardiff Giant</a>.</li> </ul></li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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