However: To bolster the claim that Barnum was not the originator, a variation of the saying was published in January 1806 four years before Barnum was born. "Essay on False Genius" in The European Magazine and London Review. The essay relates an antisemitic anecdote in which a person expresses astonishment at a Jewish salesman's ability to sell his damaged and worthless commodities, to which the salesman replies, there vash von fool born every minute
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