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Harry Houdini Quotes

Hungarian - Entertainer | March 24, 1874 - October 31, 1926

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

Family Live Money I Am Me Think

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

Eating Small Alcohol Balls Cotton

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.

Fire Will Always Terrible Been Most

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

Good Teeth Iron Off Bite Set

Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.

Confidence Man Matter Only Betrayed

How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.

Church Early Secrets Kind Become

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

Performance Eating Fake Burning

Pickpockets either work alone or in pairs, or what is called a mob.

Work Alone Mob Pairs Either

A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on the right side of the person they intend to rob in a streetcar or other vehicle.

Person Right Over Side Carry Left

But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.

Integrity Experience Me Thought Say

But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.

I Am Honor Know Only Far Oath

Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.

Fire Eating Kings Heat Always Been

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