My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

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• Harry Houdini:

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

• Harry Houdini:

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

• Harry Houdini:

  The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

• Harry Houdini:

  The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.

• Harry Houdini:

  To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly p

• Harry Houdini:

  What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.

• Harry Houdini:

  I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

• Harry Houdini:

  The pickpocket is usually very well dressed and of prepossessing appearance.

• Harry Houdini:

  It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.

• Harry Houdini:

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