“Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.”
Edgard Varèse (1883–1965) French composer
As quoted by Martha Graham, in Dance Observer, Volumes 24-27 (1957), p. 5
“There's a sucker born every minute.”
Commonly attributed to Barnum, there is much testimony of contemporaries that he never actually said this, and in "P. T. Barnum Never Did Say "There's a Sucker Born Every Minute" http://www.historybuff.com/library/refbarnum.html R. J. Brown asserts that it actually originated with a banker named David Hannum, in reference to one of Barnum's hoaxes: a replica of the Cardiff Giant. <br class="br">Misattributed
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