Clergymen sometimes take offense when I place my Museum next door to their churches; but really, a lecture on natural history from my platform is quite as instructive as a sermon from their pulpits.
— P.T. Barnum Contemporary

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Letter to a newspaper editor

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1850

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Strange & Unusual

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