“The greatest humbug of all is the man who believes—or pretends to believe—that everything and everybody are humbugs.”— P.T. Barnum, amazon.com
“And in what business is there not humbug? 'There’s cheating in all trades but ours,' is the prompt reply from the boot-maker with his brown paper soles, the grocer with his floury sugar and chicoried coffee, the butcher with his mysterious sausages and queer veal, the dry goods man with his 'damaged…”— P.T. Barnum, amazon.com