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From: Shirley <>
Subject: Re: Trivia: Fall guy
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 23:32:21 -0700


Wasn't PTB known for saying "There's a sucker born every minute"??

shirley

> In a message dated 06/03/99 6:06:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
> << "Never give a sucker an even break," movie comedian W. C. Fields once
> said. >>
>
> I had always heard that this quote was attributed to P. T. Barnum, however my
> _QPB Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins_ states that there is no proof
> to support this. "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break" was the title of a W.
> C. Fields movie, however the phrase was not invented by him.
>
> Regards,
> Kathy Smit

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