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Correction, if you want to teach your children how to be sleezeballs and raise money the huckster way.

There are more than a few ways to make money, raise money, and live life that don't involve being a scumbag.

Except Barnum never said that, and was actually a pretty fucking stand up guy when you look into it.

You mean an apocryphal quote about the ease of fooling people is itself false? Say it ain't so! I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

The quote isn't false per se, just wrongly attributed.

That does create a sort of tragic irony I suppose, because like I said, Barnum was a pretty great guy all told (philanthropist, abolitionist...)

Lesson or not, it is still a scam.