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August 5, 2010 KR Blog KR

Money Getting, Part XIII

A Verse Digest of P. T. Barnum’s The Art of Money Getting (1880)
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LET HOPE PREDOMINATE BUT BE NOT TOO VISIONARY

always kept poor
(too visionary)

changing one business to another

always in hot water
always under the harrow

counting the chickens
before they are hatched

an error of ancient date
does not improve by age

Money Getting Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX, Part X, Part XI, Part XII

Money Getting is a verse digest of P.T. Barnum’s The Art of Money Getting (1880)