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Phillip Carlyle: You’re risking everything you’ve built.
P. T. Barnum: Well how do you think I built it...
P. T. Barnum: Well how do you think I built it...
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Phillip’s Mother: You forget your place, Phillip.
Phillip Carlyle: My place? Mother, if this is my place, then I don't want any part of it.
Phillip Carlyle: My place? Mother, if this is my place, then I don't want any part of it.
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Queen Victoria: You're even smaller than I imagined!
Tom Thumb: Well you're not exactly reaching the top shelf yourself, sweetheart.
Tom Thumb: Well you're not exactly reaching the top shelf yourself, sweetheart.
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And life always manages to remind me that I don't deserve a place in this world.
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And that leaves a hole that no ovation can ever fill.
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Everyone is special and nobody is like anyone else. That’s the point of my show.
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Father is sending me to finishing school.
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For you and you...and for your father.
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God, no. But I've seen the crowds. People leave your show happier than when they came in.
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Hyperbole isn't the worst crime. Men suffer more from imagining too little than too much.
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I don't know what my future will be.
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I gave most of my earnings to charity,Mr Barnum...to orphans and widows.
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I guess I'll just have to tell the queen either all of us go or none of us will.
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I sometimes don't feel like I belong here.
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I was born out of wedlock and that brought shame upon my family.