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Often the famous will immolate all on their own with one ill-considered remark or tweet.

From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2015

You will be delivered up to scorn and contempt; the critics will immolate you; the eyes of this great metropolis are fixed upon you.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 by Various