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• The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.
• My Brain is the key that sets me free.
• The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin.
• Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.
• Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.
• I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be…
• It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.
• My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day…
• I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself…
• But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have…
• To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton…
• Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known…

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