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A Curious Thing About Ugu The Shoemaker Was That He Didn't Suspect In The Least That He Was Wicked. He Wanted To Be Powerful And Great, And He Hoped To Make Himself Master Of All The Land Of Oz That He Might Compel Everyone In That Fairy Country To Obey Him, His Ambition Blinded Him To The Rights Of Others, And He Imagined Anyone Else Would Act Just As He Did If Anyone Else Happened To Be As Clever As Himself.

Time Is Given Us To Be Happy And For No Other Reason [...] When We Waste Time, We Waste Happiness.

Courage~ What Makes The Flag On The Mast To Wave? What Makes The Elephant Charge His Tusk In The Misty Mist, Or The Dusky Dusk? What Makes The Muskrat Guard His Musk? Courage! What Makes The Sphinx The Seventh Wonder? Courage! What Makes The Dawn Come Up Like Thunder? Courage! What Makes The Hottentot So Hot? What Puts The "ape" In Apricot?~cowardly Lion From The Wizard Of Oz

Everything In Life Is Unusual Until You Become Accustomed To It.

Familiarity With Any Great Thing Removes Our Awe Of It. The Great General Is Only Terrible To The Enemy; The Great Poet Is Frequently Scolded By His Wife; The Children Of The Great Statesman Clamber About His Knees With Perfect Trust And Impunity; The Great Actor Who Is Called Before The Curtain By Admiring Audiences Is Often Waylaid At The Stage Door By His Creditors.