There exist in the annals of salesmanship certain ideas that are both highly immoral and wickedly clever.
Before P. T. Barnum attached his name to circuses, he ran Barnum’s American Museum in Manhattan. From 1841 until its destruction by fire in 1865, this received more than 38 million visitors, each paying 25c.
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