If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a lit

If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days. – P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

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