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The foundation of success in life is good health.
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“The foundation of success in life is good health.”

P. T. Barnum

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The Art of Money Getting
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1880
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Achievement is treated as dependent on the physical capacity to work, think, and sustain effort rather than as a purely financial or professional matter.

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The Art of Money Getting; Barnum places health before the business maxims that follow.

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