P.T. Barnum — "The public loves a good fraud, if it's a good fraud."
The public loves a good fraud, if it's a good fraud.
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Reported statement, highlighting his understanding of public's perverse enjoyment of being 'humbugged'
Date: c. 1860s-1880s
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