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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
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Professor Hoffmann
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5.
Avoid
personalities.
We
except
the
case
of
the
often
recurring
nuisance,
the
gentleman
who
professes
to
know
how
everything
is
done,
and
whose
special
endeavour
it
is
to
embarrass
the
performer.
When
you
can
make
a
person
of
this
kind
look
like
a
fool
(by
no
means
a
difficult
task)
by
all
means
do
so.
6.
Never
plead
guilty
to
a
failure.
Keep
your
wits
about
you,
and
if
anything
goes
wrong,
try
to
save
your
credit
by
bringing
the
trick
to
some
sort
of
a
conclusion,
even
though
it
be
a
comparatively
weak
one.
If
you
are
so
unfortunate
as
to
experience
a
complete
and
unmistakeable
break-down,
smile
cheerfully,
and
ascribe
the
fiasco
to
the
moon
being
in
a
wrong
quarter,
to
a
little
misunderstanding
between
two
of
your
“controlling
spirits,”
or
any
other
burlesque
reason,
so
long
as
it
be
sufficiently
remote
from
the
true
one.
Bearing
in
mind
these
parting
counsels,
and
thus
armed
against
failure
as
well
as
prepared
for
success,
you
may
safely
ring
up
the
curtain,
and
begin
to
“witch
the
world”
with
the
marvels
and
mysteries
of
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