“Always take a trustworthy newspaper, and thus keep thoroughly posted in regard to the transactions of the world. He
who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.”
—P.T. Barnum (1810-1891),
the “greatest showman,” circus titan and celebrated hoaxster, from “The Life of P.T Barnum Written by Himself, 1888.
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