P.T. Barnum — "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of t…"

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
P.T. Barnum — P.T. Barnum Contemporary · Showman, circus, hoaxes

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About P.T. Barnum (1810-1891)

American showman and Barnum & Bailey Circus co-founder, whose autobiography popularized Gilded Age commercial spectacle. Closely associated with James Anthony Bailey (his circus business partner). For an intellectual contrast, see Mark Twain, American author and Gilded Age satirist — Twain's The Gilded Age (1873, with Charles Dudley Warner) named the entire era of corrupt commercial spectacle Barnum embodied — Twain's later writing repeatedly attacked Barnum-style hucksterism as the era's moral disease.

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Widely attributed, though its exact origin and whether he said it is debated. Often found in anecdotes about him.

Date: 1860s-1880s (approx)

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