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Now, let's read and relax.

Find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume.

Take a nice deep breath in. Let it out slowly. And off we go. Tonight, let's relax with an interesting how-to guide from a rather famous American, the art of money-getting or golden rules for

making money by Phineas T Phineas T. Barnum, first published in 1880 by Bell and Co, Philadelphia.

Let's begin. The Art of Money Getting. In the United States, where we have more land than people,

it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.

In this comparatively new field, there are so many avenues of success open, so many vocations which are not crowded, that any person of either sex who is willing,

at least for the time being, to engage in any respectable occupation that offers

may find lucrative employment. Those who really desire to attain an independence have only to set their minds upon it and adopt the proper

means as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish and the thing is easily done.

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