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"Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol."
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"I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol."
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"This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler."
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"I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was."
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"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."
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"One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough."
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"But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away."
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"I'll tell you the truth: I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful."
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"I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol."
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"You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally."
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"That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end."
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"Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter."
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"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."
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"The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed."
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"Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol."
Alcohol

"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."
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"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."
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"It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer."
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"The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance."
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"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."
Business

"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
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